Luckau-Uckro station

Luckau-Uckro
Junction station
Station building of the Berlin–Dresden railway with station forecourt, 2012
Location	Uckro, Luckau, Brandenburg Germany
Coordinates	51°51′07″N 13°36′28″E / 51.85205°N 13.60785°E / 51.85205; 13.60785Coordinates: 51°51′07″N 13°36′28″E / 51.85205°N 13.60785°E / 51.85205; 13.60785
Line(s)	Berlin–Dresden railway Lower Lusatian Railway (NLE) Dahme–Uckro railway (DUE) (closed)
Platforms	2 (Berlin–Dresden) 2 (NLE, disused) 1 (DUE, closed)
Tracks	5
Other information
Station code	6305
DS100 code	BUK
IBNR	8010353
Category	6
History
Opened	17 June 1875
Previous names	Uckro-Luckau (1875–) Uckro (–1996)
Traffic
Passengers	200 per day
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Drahnsdorf toward  or Stralsund RE 5 Walddrehna toward Elsterwerda

Luckau-Uckro (called Uckro until 1996 and Uckro-Luckau in its early years) station is in the locality of Uckro in the city of Luckau in the south of the German state of Brandenburg. It lies on the Berlin–Dresden railway and was formerly a railway as it was also served by the Dahme–Uckro railway and the Lower Lusatian Railway. All three railway lines had their own station buildings. These have been preserved and all three buildings are heritage-listed.

The station is located at kilometre 76.0 (measured from Berlin) of the Berlin–Dresden railway to the west of the centre of Uckro, a hamlet that is in the territory of the town of Luckau in the Brandenburg district of Dahme-Spreewald. The railway line runs approximately north-south through the station. The actual town of Luckau is about eight kilometres away to the east and the town of Dahme/Mark is located about 13 kilometres to the west. It lies to the east at the foot of the Lower Lusatian Ridge at the beginning of the Lusatian Border Ridge, a smaller range of hills, which the railway line crosses to the south.

The original plans of the Berlin-Dresden railway had provided for a route through the town of Dahme, but this failed because of the resistance of the local mayor. The same is said of a route via Luckau. So the line was built on the current route at a higher cost because of the ridges around Uckro. The station in the village Uckro was opened along with the line on 17 June 1875. In its first years of operation, it was called Uckro-Luckau due to its proximity to Luckau. There were stagecoach connections from Uckro to Luckau and Dahme.

In the following years there were further plans to connect Dahme to the railway. A larger standard gauge network was planned, but after all the investigations were completed, the only route approved was the Dahme–Uckro–Luckau route. After the town of Luckau decided not to take part, the Dahme-Uckroer-Eisenbahn AG (Dahme-Uckro Railway, DUE) was founded on 21 October 1884.The 12.6 km long section from Uckro to Dahme went into operation on 31 July 1886.

In the 1890s planning began on the building of a railway line from Falkenberg via Uckro, Luckau to Lübben. The Lower Lusatian Railway (Niederlausitzer Eisenbahn, NLE) went into operation between Luckau and Uckro on 20 December 1897. The extension to Falkenberg and the section between Lübben and Luckau followed on 15 March 1898. This line crossed the main line several kilometres south of Uckro, but the company built its own station close to the eastern edge of the state railway's station building.