The Bremerhaven–Cuxhaven railway (also called the ''Nordseebahn'' or North Sea Railway) is a railway line between Bremerhaven and

Cuxhaven Cuxhaven (; ) is an independent town and seat of the Cuxhaven district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town includes the northernmost point of Lower Saxony. It is situated on the shore of the North Sea at the mouth of the Elbe River. Cuxhaven has ...

, opened in 1899. Since December 14, 2003, passenger trains on the line are operated by the company with the same name, a joint venture of

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and EVB. The line is part of the Kursbuchstrecke 125 (

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

-Bremerhaven-Cuxhaven)''DB Bahn - Tabellenübersichten''
at kursbuch.bahn.de and click on ''Regionaltabellen''. Accessed on 12 Sep 2010. and operated with

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vehicles. Services operate hourly between 05:00 and 23:00 Monday to Saturday, with a bi-hourly schedule on weekends. Some trains continue past Bremerhaven and terminate in

Bremen Hbf Bremen Hauptbahnhof (German for ''Bremen main station'') is a railway station in the city of Bremen in northwestern Germany. It is the most important rail station for both the city and state of Bremen; InterCityExpress, Intercity, EuroCity, City ...

Stations

The stations have been extensively modernised since Nordseebahn GmbH has taken over traffic on the line. The

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in Nordholz have been removed, though, thus no additional traffic on the line is possible due to scheduling restrictions. Stations serviced until 1991 were

Altenwalde Altenwalde is a village in the town of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony. Altenwalde was first mentioned in 1282 as Wolde. On July 1, 1972, Altenwalde was incorporated into Cuxhaven Cuxhaven (; ) is an independent town and seat of the Cuxhaven district ...

, Spieka, Midlum and

Mulsum Mulsum is a village and a former municipality in the district of Cuxhaven, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Since 1 January 2015 it is part of the municipality Wurster Nordseeküste. It is located on Wurster Landstraße, L129, between Dorum to the no ...

. Prior to that, the stations in Imsum and Bremerhaven-Speckenbüttel were closed.

Former traffic

The line is no longer used by freight traffic. If trains between Cuxhaven and

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have to be diverted due to maintenance work on the

Niederelbebahn The Lower Elbe Railway (german: Niederelbebahn or ''Unterelbebahn''), is a railway line between Hamburg and Cuxhaven in northwestern Germany, which was opened in 1881 by the ''Lower Elbe Railway Company'' (''Unterelbesche Eisenbahngesellschaft''). ...

, passenger trains on the Nordseebahn have to be cancelled. The line saw its last long-distance trains in 2001. Prior to that date InterRegio trains from Luxembourg and

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called at all stations and terminated at

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