Wremen is a railway station on the
Nordseebahn line from
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 ...
to
Bremerhaven in Northwestern
Germany
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. It is situated close to the village of
Wremen
Wremen () 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.
The ''Land of Wursten'', a rather autonomous farmers' republic inc ...
.
History
The station was opened in 1896 as part of the extension from the
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 ...
to
Bremerhaven line toward Cuxhaven. It has been a minor station during its whole existence, as the single-track line toward Cuxhaven allowed for crossings at
Dorum railway station only.
South of it, in the village of
Imsum, used to be another, similarly minor station. However it was closed and removed in the late 1970s. The
Bremerhaven-Speckenbüttel railway station, south of Imsum, was closed in 1988, so Wremen is a notable distance north of the next station currently in operation.
Ever since the advent of the motorcar, the station mainly serves commuters into
Bremerhaven and tourists. At some point even international
InterRegio trains to
Luxembourg
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and
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...
called at the station, though this service was removed in the late 1990s.
Train services
The following services currently call at the station:
Timetables for Wremen station
*Local services ''Cuxhaven - Dorum - Bremerhaven - Bremervörde - Buxtehude''
Operational usage
The station today is a very minor station, as all buildings have been scrapped in the 1960s and 1970s, it has since been reduced to the status of a stop.
It underwent some renovation in the early 2000s (decade) to bring its sub-standard platform up to par; when InterRegio trains to Luxembourg were still calling at the station (mainly for tourist reasons), the passengers had to deal with a height difference of 85 centimetres between car floor and platform. Today, EVB services call at the station in varying intervals, usually hourly during weekdays.
References
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Buildings and structures in Cuxhaven (district)
Railway stations in Lower Saxony
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1896