Guben station: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox station

| name = Guben

| type = Junction station

| code = {{Deutsche Bahn station codes|code=2405|ds100=BGU<ref name=Eisenbahnatlas >{{cite book|title=Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) | edition=2009/2010 |publisher= Schweers + Wall | year= 2009 |isbn= 978-3-89494-139-0}}</ref>|ibnr=8010357|category=5<ref name =categories >{{DBCatsURL}}</ref>}}

| trains=

| platforms = 4

| address = Bahnhofstr. 9-10, [[Guben]], [[Brandenburg]]

| country = Germany

| coordinates = {{coord|51.958623|N|14.706810|E|region:DE-BB_type:railwaystation|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| owned = [[DB Netz]]

| line = * [[Berlin–Wrocław railway|Berlin–Wrocław]] (km 129.7)

* [[Cottbus–Guben railway|Cottbus–Guben]] (km 211.5)

| map_type = Brandenburg

| map_caption = Location within Brandenburg

}}

 

The station has four platform tracks. Tracks 2 and 8 are located to the west or east of the main platforms; tracks 1 and 3 lie on a common island platform on the west side. Tracks 1 and 2 are, however, normally the only platforms served by passenger trains.

 

 

==History ==

The section from Guben to [[Zbąszyń]] (then called Bentschen) was constructed for the ''Märkisch-Posener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'' (Markish-Poznan Railway Company), beginning in 1866. This line was completed in 1870 and as a result Guben station became a railway junction. The station building of 1845 was retained, but its operations were taken over by a new building situated on an island between the tracks. Trains ran on the northern bridge over the Neisse to Zbąszynek from 26 June 1870. A connection was opened and operated to the south to Cottbus by the [[Halle-Sorau-Guben Railway Company]] (''Halle-Sorau-Gubener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'' (HSGE) on 1 September 1871. A locomotive depot ([[Bahnbetriebswerk (steam locomotives)|Bahnbetriebswerk]]) completed the station area. Guben was the meeting place of long-distance trains between Berlin and Breslau on the one hand and between Leipzig and Allenstein (now [[Olsztyn]]) on the other. The [[Forst–Guben railway|branch line to Forst]], which starts about two and a half kilometres south of Guben station, was opened in 1904.

 

 

On 18 February 1945, the operation of trains in Guben was abandoned completely in front of the advancing front. With the end of World War II, the major damage was eliminated by the end of July 1945. Most of the town of Guben was transferred to Poland. Operations at Guben station was taken over by the [[Polish State Railways]] (PKP) on 1 August 1945 as there was no suitable transfer station available on the Polish side of the border.{{sfn|Kuhlmann|2004|p=130}} On 1 October, control of the station was transferred to ''Reichsbahndirektion'' ([[Railway divisions in Germany|railway division]] of) Cottbus. Passenger services over the [[Lusatian Neisse]] were abandoned; cross-border freight traffic continued on the line of the former Markish-Poznan Railway towards [[Zielona Góra]] (formerly called ''Grünberg in Schlesien''). Thus, a Polish part of Gubin station emerged north of the city. The Berlin–Wrocław line towards [[Lubsko]] (formerly ''Sommerfeld'') was maintained for military strategic reasons. There was, however, no regular traffic across the border and freight traffic ended on the Polish side at the small, newly built ''Gubinek'' station south of the city.{{sfn|Kuhlmann|2004|p=131}}

 

==Train services==

 

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! Operator

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| [[DB Regio Nordost]]

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| DB Regio Nordost

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==Bus services==

 

=== Sources===

 

== External links ==

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