| Wittenberge station | |
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| Operations | |
| Category | 3 [1] |
| Type | Through station |
| Platforms in use | 5 |
| Station code | 6825 |
| Construction and location | |
| Opened | 15 October 1846 |
| Style of architecture | Neoclassical |
| Location | Wittenberge |
| State | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Home page | www.bahnhof.de |
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| List of railway stations in Brandenburg | |
Wittenberge station is the railway station for the Brandenburg town of Wittenberge in Germany. About 5000 passengers use the station daily and it is served by around 100 trains per day.
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Following an extensive rebuild in 2004, the station now has a 55 centimetre high and 340 metre long home platform as well as two island platforms 405 metres in length and 76 centimetres in height. A 65 metre long subway links the platforms to the station building. All platforms are barrier-free and accessible by means of stairs and lifts.
The station was built in 1846 at kilometre post 126 on the Berlin-Hamburg Railway. In 1851 the Wittenberge–Stendal line was opened. That made Wittenberge station into the most important railway hub between Berlin and Hamburg. The station building of this Keilbahnhof ("wedge station", i.e. situated between the two converging lines of a junction) was located between the western approach tracks of the Magdeburg route and the eastern approach tracks on the Berlin-Hamburg Railway.
From 1870 trains also ran from here on a branch of the Berlin-Hamburg Railway, that led over the river Elbe near Dömitz and via Dannenberg to Buchholz.
Wittenberge station was comprehensively refurbished as part of the upgrade of the Berlin-Hamburg Railway in 2000. It lost its status as an island station, as all the tracks are now on the eastern side of the station building. The so-called Magdeburg Side lost its tracks, the line from Stendal being re-routed south of the building on the Berlin Side. The number of tracks was also significantly reduced.
The refurbishment required 280,000 tonnes of earth to be moved, around 22 kilometres track to be replaced, 120 points to be removed, 42 points to be installed and 32 kilometres of catenary to be replaced. The running speed through the station was raised from 30 to 160 km/h; an increase to 197 km/h, which was also considered, would have required the control of active tilting technology by the train safety system, LZB, but this was not put into practice.[2] A total of seven million euros was invested.
The opening of the rebuilt station took place on 24 August 2004 in the presence of the German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder.
In the 2007 timetable only passenger trains operated by Deutsche Bahn stopped in Wittenberge. Long-distance services are provided by five InterCity/EuroCity pairs of trains between Berlin/Dresden or Hamburg on workdays and an IC train pair between Rostock and Leipzig. One or two ICE trains stop at the station during the daily rush hours, but most pass through without stopping.
Local rail services in Wittenberge are provided by two Brandenburg Regional-Express services: line RE 2 (Ludwigsfelde/Luckenwalde–Wittenberge/Wismar) and line RE 6 (Berlin-Spandau–Hennigsdorf–Pritzwalk-Wittenberge). In addition RB/RE trains, ordered by the state of Saxony-Anhalt, run on the Wittenberge - Magdeburg route.
| Preceding station | DB AG | Following station | ||
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toward Hamburg-Altona
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ICE 28 |
toward München Hbf
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toward Warnemünde
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IC 56 |
toward Dresden Hbf
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Karstädt
toward Wismar
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RE 2 |
Bad Wilsnack
toward Cottbus
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| Terminus | RE |
Weisen
toward Berlin-Spandau
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| Terminus | RB |
toward Schönebeck-Salzelmen
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