Heide (Germany) station

Heide
Through station

Heide station, former platforms 102 and 103,
with the old station building to the left in the background
Location Heide, Schleswig-Holstein
Germany
Coordinates 54°11′35″N 9°06′04″E / 54.193039°N 9.100982°E / 54.193039; 9.100982Coordinates: 54°11′35″N 9°06′04″E / 54.193039°N 9.100982°E / 54.193039; 9.100982
Line(s)
Platforms 5
Other information
Station code 2625
DS100 codeAHI[1]
Category3[2]
History
Opened 22 August 1877

Heide (Holst) station is a junction station in the town of Heide in the district of Dithmarschen in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The Hamburg–Elmshorn–Heide–Westerland, the Neumünster–Heide and the Heide–Büsum lines cross here.

History

The old signal box in Heide

The station was built in 1877 by the West Holstein Railway Company (Westholsteinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) along with its main line from Neumünster. This line continued to Karolinenkoog as the Heide–Karolinenkoog railway, including a ferry to Tönning opened in 1876. In 1878, the Marsh Railway was extended to the station, giving a direct connections to Hamburg via Itzehoe and Elmshorn. The line was extended to Husum in 1886, using part of the Karolinenkoog branch. In 1883, the West Holstein Railway also completed a branch to Büsum. The premises of the Norderdithmarschen District Railway (Kreisbahn Norderdithmarschen) were in the station forecourt from 1905 to 1938. It operated a metre gauge railway from Heide to places in the Geest country of the northern Dithmarschen district. Its terminus and loading tracks were to the northeast of the state railway station. The relatively large entrance and administration building of the Norderdithmarschen District Railway is now used as a youth centre and a music school, among other things. The Heide workshop, which was responsible for the provision of locomotives and wagons, was at the southern end of the station from 1878 to 1978.

Operations

Heide–Itzehoe NOB DMU at old platform 102
Train of the Nord-Ostsee-Bahn (NOB) at old platform 1, looking to the south
The station from the north on an old postcard in about 1900

Regional services are operated over the Marsh Railway between Hamburg and Westerland (Sylt) by the Nord-Ostsee-Bahn (which is owned by Veolia Verkehr) in both directions every hour. There are also some InterCity services operated by Deutsche Bahn. Between the hourly through trains between Westerland and Hamburg, Nord-Ostsee-Bahn generally operates Regionalbahn services between Heide and Itzehoe offset by about half an hour.

Nord-Ostsee-Bahn also operates hourly services on the Heide-Büsum line, continuing on the Neumünster–Heide line every two hours. Every hour, trains on all lines meet in Heide and thus form a node in the basic interval timetable of Schleswig-Holstein.

Line Route Frequency
IC 26 Westerland (Sylt) – Heide – Hamburg – Hannover One train pair
IC 27 Westerland (Sylt) – Heide – Hamburg – Berlin – Dresden One train pair
IC 30 Westerland (Sylt) – Heide – Hamburg – Bremen – Münster (Westf) – Dortmund – Düsseldorf – Cologne (– Koblenz – Frankfurt (Main)) One train pair
NOB Westerland (Sylt) – Niebüll – Husum – Heide – Itzehoe – Elmshorn – Hamburg-Altona Hourly
NOB Husum –) Heide – Itzehoe Hourly (not coordinated)
NBE Büsum – Heide – Hohenwestedt – Neumünster Every 2 hours, hourly between Büsum and Heide

The railway lines that meet in Heide are not electrified.

Railway infrastructure

The old station building was located on an island between the current tracks 1 and 2 (tracks 2 and 1 until 2011) on the Marsh Railway and 4 and 5 (tracks 101–103 until 2011) on the line to Büsum and Neumünster. This was demolished at the beginning of May 2011 and replaced by a new but much smaller single-storey building on the western side of the railway facilities, which was taken into operations in the early summer of 2013. For this reason, the tracks were re-numbered starting from the west, while previously they were numbered starting from the central platform in each case. Since the beginning of 2013, the old island platform has been completely removed and dismantled.

Platform tracks

Since its reconstruction the station has five platform tracks. The scheduled use of the tracks is as follows:

Until 2011, the tracks were used as follows:

Notes

  1. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. ↑ "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
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