Zittau station (german: Bahnhof Zittau) is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

Zittau Zittau ( hsb, Žitawa, dsb, Žytawa, pl, Żytawa, cs, Žitava, :de:Oberlausitzer Mundart, Upper Lusatian Dialect: ''Sitte''; from Slavic languages, Slavic "''rye''" (Upper Sorbian and Czech: ''žito'', Lower Sorbian: ''žyto'', Polish: ''żyto' ...

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. The station is located on the Liberec–Zittau, Zittau–Löbau and Zittau–Hagenwerder

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lines as well as it is one terminus of

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Zittau–Kurort Oybin/Kurort Jonsdorf railway. Until 1945 narrow gauge Zittau–Hermsdorf railway to today's

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in Poland and Heřmanice in the Czech Republic also began at Zittau station. The standard gauge parts of the station are operated by

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(platforms) and

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(tracks), narrow gauge parts by

Saxon-Upper Lusatian Railway Company The Saxon-Upper Lusatian Railway Company (''Sächsisch-Oberlausitzer Eisenbahngesellschaft'' or SOEG) is a German railway company based in Saxony. It is the owner and operator of the Zittau narrow gauge railway. History The SOEG was founded on ...

Services

Railway services

As of May 2017 there are hourly services to

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and

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(lines RE 2 and RB 61 run by Vogtlandbahn), to Liberec (lines RE 2 and L 7 run by Vogtlandbahn),

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–Rybniště/Seifhennersdorf (line L 7 run by Vogtlandbahn) and to

Görlitz Görlitz (; pl, Zgorzelec, hsb, Zhorjelc, cz, Zhořelec, :de:Ostlausitzer Mundart, East Lusatian dialect: ''Gerlz'', ''Gerltz'', ''Gerltsch'') is a town in the Germany, German state of Saxony. It is located on the Lusatian Neisse River, and ...

and

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(line OE 65 run by

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). Narrow gauge services to Kurort Oybin and/or Kurort Jonsdorf run five times daily during main tourist seasons, two times daily during off-season. On summer weekend days there are three additional pairs of trains, which makes a peak of up to eight daily trains on summer weekend days. File:11.05.14 Zittau 642.037 (14050052368).jpg, A class 642 DMU of

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in May 2014 running as RB 61 to Dresden. This service was overtaken in December 2014 by Vogtlandbahn, which uses the same type of cars. File:2 rote Personenwaggons am Bahnhof der Stadt Zittau.JPG, Before cross-border line L7 (initially named as ''TLX'') between Liberec, Zittau, Rybniště and Seifhennersdorf started operation in December 2010, there had been regular services by

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even in Zittau. File:Seria 99 758 na stacji Zittau.JPG, Narrow gauge steam train of SOEG to Kurort Oybin in 2014. File:Zittau narrow gauge station 2011.jpg, Entrance to the narrow gauge station in 2011.

Local transport

City bus lines A, B and C as well as many regional bus lines frequently stop at this station.Map of bus services in Zittau
by

Verkehrsverbund Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien The Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien (Upper Lusatia–Lower Silesia Transport Association or ZVON) is a transport association run by public transport providers in the German state of Saxony. The ZVON area comprises the distr ...

The bus station is located in front of the railway station building.

Station overview

The standard gauge facilities are situated north of the station building, the narrow gauge facilities south of it. The narrow gauge passenger station is located east of the square with the bus stop, a depot west of it. Plan Bahnhof Zittau

References

External links

* {{Commons category-inline, Bahnhof Zittau, Zittau railway station Railway stations in Saxony Railway stations in Germany opened in 1848