Celle train station

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Celle train station
Reception building
Reception building
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 6th
abbreviation HC
IBNR 8000046
Price range 3
opening October 9, 1845
location
City / municipality Celle
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 37 '15 "  N , 10 ° 3' 48"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 37 '15 "  N , 10 ° 3' 48"  E
Railway lines

from Celle Nord (OHE):

Railway stations in Lower Saxony
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The Celle Station is a local and long distance train station on the Hanover-Hamburg railway . The station building was opened on October 9, 1845 . The Deutsche Bahn AG service center is located in the station .

The station belongs to station category 3. Intercity / ICE trains to Hanover and Hamburg stop there every hour . In regional traffic, trains of the Metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft connect Celle with Hamburg and Uelzen as well as Hanover and Göttingen. Celle is the end point of the S6 and S7 lines of the Hanover S-Bahn .

history

On October 15, 1845, Celle received the first railway connection, the line began in Lehrte, via which Hanover and Braunschweig could be reached. The continuation to Harburg was opened on May 1, 1847 . The first station building was built according to a design by Conrad Wilhelm Hase .

In 1905 the Allertalbahn was completed in the direction of Verden, in 1913 in the direction of Gifhorn.

On September 1, 1920, the Celle – Braunschweig line was open to Uetze, and in 1923 the whole line to Braunschweig. A new station building was constructed between 1916 and 1919.

On May 15, 1938, the railway line to Langenhagen, which had already begun in 1913, was opened and since then a large part of the long-distance traffic to Hanover has been running.

Station 1975, on the right at track 1 an OHE railcar

In 1966, passenger traffic to Verden was discontinued, freight traffic gradually, until 2005 the airport in Wietzenbruch could still be reached by rail. Passenger traffic in the direction of Braunschweig ended in 1971, the last section to Nienhagen was discontinued in 1990 in freight traffic. In 1981 passenger traffic to Gifhorn ended, goods traffic was still possible up to Müden-Dieckhorst until 1993.

In 2019 the platforms received elevators, from 2012 to 2015 the station buildings and platforms were renewed, with the platforms receiving new roofs. The station was redesigned into a "light art station".

Investments

The station has three partially covered central platforms with tracks 2 to 7, which can be reached barrier-free via a tunnel. Track 2 is only connected on one side (to the south). There is still a short platform at track 1, but it only provides access to the parking garage to the south. The platform on track 8 for the Allertalbahn has been removed. The freight yard is located south of the passenger station, and the depot was located there south of Wiesenstrasse. Today a car repair company is located there.

OHE

To the north of the Aller, east of the line, is the Celle Nord station of the Osthannoverschen Railways . It was opened in 1904 for the Kleinbahn Celle-Wittingen , it then also became the terminus of the already existing Kleinbahn Celle-Soltau, Celle-Munster . From 1959, the passenger trains were taken to Celle station, before that passengers had to make the way between the two stations on foot. There was a separate footbridge over the Aller for this. In 1976 the OHE passenger traffic from Celle was discontinued. At Celle Nord station there is a reception building that is now the headquarters of the administration, three platform edges were present and were dismantled after the introduction of the trains to Celle station. There was a goods handling facility, workshops and a roundhouse with 13 stalls.

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Celle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Celle train station. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  2. Modernization of the Celle station continues. In: Celler Presse. June 28, 2015, accessed September 4, 2019 .
  3. Lichtkunstbahnhof Celle, accessed on September 3, 2019