Kreiensen station

Kreiensen
Junction station
Entrance building from the east in 2016
Location	Bahnhof 1, Kreiensen, Lower Saxony Germany
Coordinates	51°51′04″N 9°58′04″E / 51.85113°N 9.96788°E / 51.85113; 9.96788Coordinates: 51°51′04″N 9°58′04″E / 51.85113°N 9.96788°E / 51.85113; 9.96788
Line(s)	Hanoverian Southern Railway (km 78.8) (KBS 350) Altenbeken–Kreiensen railway (KBS 403) Brunswick Southern Railway (KBS 358)
Construction
Architect	Hubert Stier
Other information
Station code	5892
DS100 code	HK
IBNR	8000213
Category	4
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1854
Services
Preceding station   Metronom   Following station Freden (Leine) toward Uelzen RE 2 Einbeck-Salzderhelden toward Göttingen Preceding station   DB Regio Nord   Following station Einbeck-Salzderhelden toward Göttingen RB 82 Bad Gandersheim toward Bad Harzburg Preceding station   NordWestBahn   Following station Stadtoldendorf toward Paderborn Hbf RB 84 Egge-Bahn Terminus
Location
Kreiensen Location within Lower Saxony

Kreiensen station is a Keilbahnhof ("wedge station") in Kreiensen in the German state of Lower Saxony and along with Einbeck-Salzderhelden station one of two stations in the town of Einbeck.

The first station in the Duchy of Brunswick was established in Kreiensen in 1854. It consisted of station buildings, outbuildings and goods sheds, as well as an extension with ancillary facilities. It became more congested with the opening of the Altenbeken–Kreiensen railway in 1865. Following the opening of the Brunswick–Bad Harzburg railway of the Duchy of Brunswick and the Vienenburg–Goslar railway in 1866, new construction at the station began in 1886. Reliefs of the Brunswick Lion on the east side and a Prussian eagle on the west side reflect its joint use by Hanover and Brunswick—the Kingdom of Hanover was located directly north and south. Master builder Richard Herzig had 35,000 yellow and red facing bricks and 110,000 common bricks delivered.

Since the tracks divided Kreiensen into two areas, a pedestrian bridge was built. It was designed according to the construction principle of Max Möller with fish-bellied support ribs at spans of 124 m and 58 m.

In 1923, there was a rear-end collision between two trains travelling at night and 47 people were killed.

In 1956, the world's first track-plan signal box was installed by Siemens. It was able to take over the tasks of three old mechanical signal boxes. Two dispatchers each served half of the station, which was only connected on the south side by three tracks. An electronic interlocking that was remotely controlled by the control centre in Hanover was put into operation on 13 November 2011.

The platforms and canopies were renovated in 2014.