Flensburg station is the main station of the city of

Flensburg Flensburg (; Danish, Low Saxon: ''Flensborg''; North Frisian: ''Flansborj''; South Jutlandic: ''Flensborre'') is an independent town (''kreisfreie Stadt'') in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the centre of the ...

in the German state of

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. Lines run from it to

Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the J ...

, to

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via

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and

Neumünster Neumünster () is a city in the middle of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. With more than 79,000 registered inhabitants, it is the fourth-largest municipality in Schleswig-Holstein (behind Kiel, Lübeck and Flensburg). History The city was fi ...

and to

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in Denmark. Between December 2007 and December 2015, Flensburg was connected to

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network. The station also handles cross-border rail traffic between Germany and Denmark.

History

On 1 April 1854 the Flensburg–Tönning line was opened by the British entrepreneur, Sir

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to a station outside the city at Holzkrug. On 4 October, its station in the city was opened, which became known as the ''English Station'' (''Englischer Bahnhof''). This station was at the south end of

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in the Flensburg old town and was formally handed over for operations on 25 October by the Danish king,

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. Ten years later, in 1864, the line was extended to

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, a famous church architect. The original station was subsequently converted into Germany's first bus station. On 1 February 1927, the present station was inaugurated outside Flensburg’s old town, on the North Schleswig Loop, which avoids the old Flensburg terminal station. Trains to and from Denmark run over a loop, which is several kilometres long, to reach the station. The station in the town built in 1883 became a freight yard and was later closed. Passenger services were closed on the line to Husum via Löwenstedt in 1959. In 1981, the last service ran on the line to Niebüll.

Operations

Station facilities

The Flensburg station is a particularly impressive collection of brick

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of the 1920s and some of its outbuildings are partially protected as monuments.

Routes

Neumünster–Flensburg railway The Neumünster Flensburg Railway is part of the Jutland line, the main north–south rail link through Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Together with the line to Husum, which diverges in Jübek, and the line to Kiel, which diverges in Rendsburg, i ...

Kiel–Flensburg railway The Kiel–Flensburg railway is a single-track railway in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The railway connects the city of Kiel on the Baltic Sea with Eckernförde and Flensburg. Travel time over the railway is around 75 minutes with a maximum speed ...

* Flensburg–Fredericia railway * Flensburg–Niebüll railway (until 1981) * Flensburg–Husum railway (until 1959) * Flensburg Port Railway (only freight)

Tracks

The station has several tracks, but only four of them have access to a platform. The tracks were electrified in 1996 and the track were renumbered, with track 5 near the reception building and track 1, furthest away from the main station building, unusually in Germany. In normal usage platforms are used as follows: *platform track 5: regional trains to and from

* platform track 4: regional trains to and from

* platform track 2: long distance and regional trains to and from Neumünster/

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as well as to Denmark * platform track 1: long distance and regional trains to and from Neumünster/Hamburg as well as to Denmark

Rail services

In long-distance transport, a

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service runs from Aalborg to Hamburg via Flensburg. These operate as

Intercity InterCity (commonly abbreviated ''IC'' on timetables and tickets) is the classification applied to certain long-distance passenger train services in Europe. Such trains (in contrast to regional, local, or commuter trains) generally call at m ...

services in Germany. In addition, an Intercity train pair provides direct connections on the weekend from Flensburg to Munich and Cologne. ''DB Regionalbahn Schleswig Holstein'' operates

Regional-Express In Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, the Regional-Express (RE, or in Austria: REX) is a type of regional train. It is similar to a semi-fast train, with average speed at about 70–90 km/h (top speed often 160 km/h) as it calls at f ...

and Regionalbahn services between Neumünster and Flensburg every hour or two hours. The Flensburg–Kiel route is currently also operated by ''DB Regionalbahn Schleswig Holstein'' every hour (as of 2016).

Notes

References

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External links

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