Eckernförde station
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Eckernförde
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| Through station | |
Station building and forecourt
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| Location |
Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein Germany |
| Coordinates | 54°28′04″N 9°50′07″E / 54.467778°N 9.835278°ECoordinates: 54°28′04″N 9°50′07″E / 54.467778°N 9.835278°E |
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| Platforms | 3 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 1457 |
| DS100 code | AEC |
| Category | 5 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1 July 1881 |
Eckernförde station is the station of the town of Eckernförde in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It is a through station and the most important en-route station on the Kiel–Flensburg railway. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station. To the north of the entrance building there was also a terminal station of the Eckernförde District Railway (German: Eckernförder Kreisbahnen) until 1958.
Eckernförde station has three platform tracks and other tracks that do not have platforms. Currently, tracks 1 and 2 are used for passenger services–until 2007 these were tracks 1 and 3:
The length of the platforms is (in rounded figures) 225 metres for track 1, 370 m for track 2 and 426 m for track 3. The latter has since been downgraded to a railway siding.
The Kiel–Flensburg railway is operated (with variations in peak hours) usually every hour by Regionalbahn Schleswig-Holstein; hourly trains between Kiel and Eckernförde are operated by the Nord-Ostsee-Bahn, offset by half an hour. On most days Eckernförde is served between about 4:30 a.m. and 1:20 a.m.
Since 2009, a regional electronic interlocking in Eckernförde station has controlled the electronic signals on the entire section between Eckernförde and Flensburg and the Lindaunis Bridge, a bascule bridge across the Schlei in Lindaunis.
The Kiel-Flensburg-Eckernförde Railway Company (Kiel-Eckernförde-Flensburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, KEFE)) opened the Kiel–Eckernförde section of the Kiel–Flensburg line on 1 July 1881 and the Eckernförde–Flensburg section on 21 December 1881. Traffic was satisfactory and it was taken over by the Prussian state railways on 1 July 1903. It became part of Deutsche Reichsbahn on 1 April 1920. The Eckernförde–Kappeln Narrow Gauge Railway Company (Eckernförde-Kappelner Schmalspurbahn-Gesellschaft) opened a railway to Kappeln with its own terminus at the northern end of Eckernförde station on 26 January 1889, which was closed in 1958. On 1 April 1903, the Eckernförde district assumed this line and opened a second line to Owschlag on 30 October 1904, which operated until 1954. To distinguish it from the Eckernförde District Railway station (Kreisbahnhof Eckernförde) and two other stations in the Eckernförde urban area of the Eckernförde District Railway (Carlshöhe, Schnaap—which was part of Borby until Borby's incorporation in Eckernförde in 1934—and, from 1947, Hasenheide), the station was initially designated as the Eckernförde Staatsbahnhof (Eckernförde state station), but it was also, at times, called Reichsbahnhof Eckernförde (Eckernförde Reichsbahn station) and after the Second World War, for a time it was called Eckernförde Hauptbahnhof (Eckernförde main station).
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