Wilhelmsburg station

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Wilhelmsburg Rapid transit
Platform of the Wilhelmsburg station, view from pedastrian bridge in March 2009.
Station statistics
Address	Wilhelm-Strauss-Weg 22109 Hamburg Germany
Line(s)	Hamburg S-Bahn S3 S31
Parking	Park and ride
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Baggage check	No
Other information
Rebuilt	1973–1983
Electrified	1200 volts DC system third rail
Accessible
Station code	ds100: AWFS DB station code: 2523 Type: Bf Category: 4
Owned by	DB Station&Service
Fare zone	108, 208^[1]
Location
Wihelmsburg station Wihelmsburg station (Hamburg)

Wilhelmsburg station is a station on the Harburg S-Bahn line and is served by the rapid transit trains on the Hamburg S-Bahn network. The railway station is located in the quarter Wilhelmsburg in the Hamburg-Mitte borough of the city of Hamburg, Germany.

The station is listed as a Bf (Bahnhof) (train station), a place where trains may start, end or change directions, and that has at least one set of points. The station is managed by DB Station&Service, a subsiary of the German railway Deutsche Bahn.^[2]

History

The Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn started its service on the Rollbahn line on December 1, 1897.^[3] In 1983 — after 10 years of construction, the first part of Hamburg's southern S-Bahn line from Central Station toward Harburg were completed and opened with the new Wilhelmsburg station.^[4]

Layout

The station is fully accessible for handicapped persons, because the highest step is 5 centimetres (2.0 in).^[5] It has exits on both ends of the island platform and a flat roof.^[6]

Services

Trains

S3 and S31 line rapid transit trains call at the station. S3 line trains run through central Hamburg and on to the towns of Pinneberg and Stade.^[7]

Facilities at the station

There are no lockers and the station is unstaffed, but there are SOS and information telephones, ticket machines, toilets and a small shop.^[5]

Preceding station		Hamburg S-Bahn		Following station
Veddel toward Pinneberg		S3		Harburg toward Stade
Veddel toward Altona		S31		Harburg toward Neugraben

References

↑ Fare Zone Plan, Hamburger Verkehrsverbund, retrieved 2009-03-18
↑ Liste Bahnhofskategorie 2008 (pdf), DB Station&Service AG, Köthener Straße 2, 10963 Berlin (2008) (German)
↑ Höltge, Dieter; Kochems, Michael (2008), Straßen- und Stadtbahnen in Deutschland, Band (in German), 11: Hamburg, Freiburg: EisenbahnKurier, p. 251, ISBN 978-3-88255-392-5
↑ Borchers, Heimann, Pischek, p. 273
↑ 5.0 5.1 DB station information, see external links
↑ Borchers, Jan; Heimann, Martin; Pischek, Wolfgang (2002), Die Hamburg S-Bahn (in German), Munich: GeraMond, p. 50, ISBN 3-7654-7191-7
↑ Network plan HVV, see external links

External links

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Coordinates: 53°29′56″N 10°0′25″E / 53.49889°N 10.00694°E / 53.49889; 10.00694

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