Northeim (Han) railway station (german: Bahnhof Northeim (Han)) is a railway hub in the town of

Northeim Northeim (; nds, Nuurten) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, seat of the district of Northeim, with, in 2011, a population of 29,000. It lies on the German Half-Timbered House Road. History Northeim is first mentioned in 800 in a document r ...

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. It is classed as category 3 station and has six platforms. In addition to 3 daily

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 ...

trains,

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trains stop at the station.

History

Northeim was connected to the railway network on 31 July 1854 with the opening of the line from

Alfeld Alfeld is a town in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany. Located on the Leine river, it is the second biggest city in the district of Hildesheim in southern Lower Saxony and part of the Metropolitan region Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsbur ...

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(the old North-South Line). On 1 September 1871 the

South Harz Railway The South Harz Railway (german: Südharzstrecke or ''Südharzbahn'') is a railway line through the German states of Lower Saxony and Thuringia. It runs from Northeim to Nordhausen, via Herzberg am Harz, Bad Lauterberg-Barbis, Bad Sachsa, Walkenri ...

to Herzberg (Harz) and

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was opened. With the opening of the

Solling Railway The Solling Railway (german: Sollingbahn is a non-electrified, single track standard gauge railway connecting Höxter-Ottbergen in the east of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and Northeim in southern Lower Saxony. It takes its name fro ...

to Ottbergen on 15 January 1878, Northeim became an important railway hub. From now on, the railway had a major impact on the development of the town. Heavy air raids in February and April 1945 fully destroyed Northeim station and its representative station hall, which had been built in 1885. After the

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, work on rebuilding Northeim station began. In the late 1960s the present station building was constructed; in 1993 a travel centre was built, that replaced the traditional ticket counters. From 1988, trains of the first InterRegio line in the

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stopped at the station. These services replaced the

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expresses. In December 2002 the InterRegio trains were superseded by 2-hourly Intercity trains. On 15 November 1992 at 1:30 am there was an accident in the immediate vicinity of Northeim station that resulted in 11 deaths and 51 injuries. In 2014 the station was upgraded and modernised at a cost of €6.4 million. The western platforms, 1 to 3, have since had a height of 76 cm, the eastern ones, nos. 11 to 13, a height of 55 cm. In 2016 the underpass on the western side of the station was lengthened.

Connections

Local services

Northeim lies on the line from

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

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and Hanover to

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(the old North-South Line), on which

Metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft Metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH is a German non-entirely-state-owned railway company based in Uelzen, Lower Saxony since December 2005. The company's activities focus exclusively on passenger transport, operating services from Hamburg to Brem ...

trains have operated hourly since December 2005. In addition the

via Herzberg (Harz) to

begins here, as does the

to Ottbergen, on which trains run hourly or two-hourly.

Long distance services

Since the timetable change of 2009/2010 in December 2009 the number of

trains calling at Northeim were significantly reduced. The majority of IC services run instead on the

Hanoverian Southern Railway The Hanoverian Southern Railway (German: ''Hannöversche Südbahn'') is a historical term but it is still a common name for the line between Hanover and Kassel. It is a German main line railway in Lower Saxony and is one of the oldest lines in G ...

on the Hanover–Wurzburg high-speed line. Three pairs of Intercity trains remain in the

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and stop, as was normal until 2009, in

, Northeim and

Kreiensen Kreiensen is a village and a former municipality in the district of Northeim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Since 1 January 2013, it is part of the town Einbeck. Geography Kreiensen is situated on the river Leine, approx. north of Northeim, and s ...

.Pressemitteilung des Wirtschaftsministeriums auf suedharzstrecke.de, Bericht von Christian Haegele, Kommentare von Michael Reinboth
retrieved 19 December 2009

References

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