Tantow train station
| Tantow | |
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 Eastern platform in June 2013,
the reception building in the background on the right |
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| Data | |
| Location in the network |
Intermediate station connecting station (1911–1945) |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | WTA |
| IBNR | 8013090 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | August 16, 1843 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Tantow |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 16 '15 " N , 14 ° 20' 59" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 23 m |
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| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The Tantow station is a through station in the municipality of Tantow in the Uckermark district . It is a border station on the border with Poland.
location
The Tantow station is located on the 111.0 kilometer of the Berlin – Szczecin railway line (Stettiner Bahn) in the immediate vicinity of the center of Tantow in the Uckermark district in the far northeast of Brandenburg . Petershagen (Uckermark) station is around eight kilometers to the south-west; in Poland situated Station Szczecin Gumieńce (barn) is located about 19 kilometers north-east. The station is adjacent to Lindenstrasse and Bahnhofstrasse and is in the area of the Berlin-Brandenburg Transport Association (VBB).
history
On August 15, 1843, the line from Angermünde to Stettin went into operation as an extension of the line from Berlin opened a few months earlier. On the 64-kilometer route there were initially only two intermediate stops, in Passow and in Tantow. The Tantow station was the first station in what is now part of Pomerania .
For a long time the station had only local significance. The station increased the importance of the place and in the vicinity of the station residential buildings for the railway workers and the corresponding supply facilities were built. In 1911 a branch line from Tantow to Gartz went into operation. In this context, the railway facilities were expanded and a water tower was built in the southern section of the station.
On December 31, 1943, a serious accident occurred in the train station. An express train for holidaymakers from the front in the direction of Berlin hit two freight locomotives at full speed. 38 people were killed.
In 1945 the line to Gartz was dismantled as a reparation payment ; around a quarter of the tracks in Tantow station were also dismantled. With the new German eastern border established in the Potsdam Agreement , Szczecin came to Poland. Tantow became a border station. Together with the city of Gartz (Oder), in contrast to the other parts of Western Pomerania, Tantow came to the state of Brandenburg and, after the administrative reform in 1952, to the Frankfurt (Oder) district . For a long time, the border crossing was only used for freight traffic. It wasn't until the early 1970s that express trains started running again across the border. After the travel conditions between the GDR and Poland deteriorated again in 1980, only one of the previous two pairs of express trains remained across the border. It was only after 1990 that cross-border passenger traffic with local trains was resumed. The offer between Angermünde and Tantow was condensed. During the GDR era, the passenger train service between Angermünde and Tantow was usually limited to four pairs of trains a day. Until 1980, two pairs of trains ran beyond Tantow to the Rosow stop just before the state border.
In 2007 the station was rebuilt and integrated into the Angermünde electronic interlocking at the Berlin operations center . The platforms in front of the station building were removed and two new outer platforms built further north , which can be reached via the level crossing.
Long-distance trains stopped at Tantow station until December 2010; then the IC connection from Szczecin Główny to Schiphol Airport was discontinued. A pair of trains ran on this route every day from Monday to Saturday. A Eurocity train running on the route until June 2012 no longer stopped at Tantow station. There have been no long-distance trains on the route since 2012.
Investments
Station building
The former station building on the southeast side of the track system originated from the time the station opened around 1843. It was rebuilt several times so that the original shape was barely recognizable. From 1945 until shortly after reunification, apartments for railway workers were housed in the station building, as well as a ticket sales point and a station restaurant. An outbuilding built around 1950 housed the border guards and customs.
The station building had been empty since the mid to late 1990s and deteriorated. The area of the building was around 185 m². The German railway offered it to several years to purchase or the successful bid, most recently in June 2015. The community Tantow declined in 2003 and 2014, a purchase from. In the past, the director of the Gartz (Oder) office often advocated a sensible reuse of the building. He supported the idea of opening an InterRail center based on the Norwegian model.
After no portable, feasible concepts could be implemented, the core and demolition of the station building began in April 2017.
Forecourt
Construction work on redesigning the station forecourt began on March 21, 2019. This resulted in two new bus stops with a covered waiting area, 35 parking spaces for cars and 24 bicycles, as well as a newly designed platform access. The conclusion of the was celebrated on November 13, 2019. Around one million euros were invested in the work by the state of Brandenburg, the district of Uckermark and the municipality of Tantow.
Tracks and platforms
The station has a total of three tracks. There is an outer platform on each of the two outer platforms , the track in the middle serves as a through track. The station area is around one kilometer long and the adjoining open line is single-track. The platforms are barrier-free , access is at ground level from the station forecourt or the Lindenallee level crossing about 100 m to the north .
traffic
The Tantow station is served by local trains on the regional line RB 66 from Angermünde to Szczecin Główny . There are eight pairs of trains a day, seven on Sundays. Three pairs of trains a day continue to run as a regional express to and from Berlin Gesundbrunnen , while construction work will continue to and from Berlin Lichtenberg until mid-October 2018. There are plans to introduce a direct connection with fast, hourly regional express trains between Berlin and Szczecin with a stop in Tantow from 2026.
Web links
- Report on the station building on berlin.bahninfo.de
- Photo gallery on plus.google.com
- Report on the station building on blickpunkt.brandenburg.de
- Tracks in service facilities (WTA) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ IBNR directory on michaeldittrich.de, accessed on October 29, 2014
- ↑ Profile of the station on firmendb.de, accessed on 16 October 2014
- ↑ a b c Rudi Buchweitz : Branch lines of the Berlin-Szczecin Railway. VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2012, pp. 41-44.
- ↑ Long-distance transport database. Retrieved April 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Bahn-Report , 4/2010, p. 42.
- ↑ Redesign of the station area. Amt Gartz (Oder), accessed on April 8, 2017 .
- ^ Länderbahn - Brandenburg / Berlin . In: Bahn-Report . No. 1 , 2020, p. 33 .