Büchen station
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Büchen
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| Junction station | |
The entrance building in 2004 with track 140 on the "house" platform
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| Location |
Büchen, Schleswig-Holstein Germany |
| Coordinates | 53°28′31″N 10°37′22″E / 53.4753°N 10.6229°ECoordinates: 53°28′31″N 10°37′22″E / 53.4753°N 10.6229°E |
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| Platforms | 5 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 929 |
| DS100 code | ALCH |
| Category | 3 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1851 |
| Traffic | |
| Passengers | 4000 |
Büchen station is a railway junction in Büchen in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. About 4,000 passengers embark or disembark each day (as of 2013).
In front of the station building there is a bus stop with connections to the surrounding villages. Büchen station is served by trains on the Berlin–Hamburg and Lübeck–Lüneburg lines.
During the division of Germany, Büchen was a border station on the line between Berlin and Hamburg in the Federal Republic of Germany.
The station was opened on 15 October 1851 with the completion of the Lübeck–Büchen section of the Lübeck–Lüneburg line by the Lübeck-Büchen Railway (German: Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn, LBE). It is also located on the Berlin-Hamburg line, which had already been opened in 1846. Simultaneously with the opening of the Büchen line of the LBE, the Berlin-Hamburg Railway Company (Berlin-Hamburger Eisenbahn-Aktiengesellschaft), opened a branch line from Büchen to Lauenburg. Passenger services were soon running on the Lübeck–Lauenburg route and after the opening of the bridge over the Elbe in Lauenburg to Lüneburg.
In April 1945, the station was seriously damaged by bombing and, at the end of the month, German troops demolished the bridge over the Elbe–Lübeck Canal to the east of the station.
After the Second World War, the Berlin–Hamburg line was divided between Schwanheide station and Büchen by the Inner German border. On the eastern side of the border, one of the two tracks between Berlin and Schwanheide was dismantled for reparations. Later the second track was removed on the western side between Büchen and Schwarzenbek, the next station.
Traffic was initially completely interrupted in the vicinity of the border. In the summer of 1946, the bridge over the Elbe–Lübeck Canal was restored, but freight was not resumed until 27 August 1947. First, it was agreed that a pair of passenger trains could also run, but they were not introduced. For the time being three through freight trains ran each day in each direction and were handed over between Büchen and Schwanheide. In the autumn of the same year it was agreed to operate additional freight trains. During the Berlin Blockade in 1948, traffic decreased significantly, but did not come to a complete standstill. On 10 September 1949, passenger traffic was resumed with two pairs of trains, one operated by railcars of the Cologne class (Bauart Köln), which were derived from the Flying Hamburger.
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