Zittau railway station

Zittau
Deutsche Bahn
Bf
The station building in 2014 as seen from south, the bus station in front of it
Location Bahnhofstr. 39, 02763 Zittau
 Saxony,  Germany
Coordinates 50°54′16″N 14°48′21″E / 50.9044692°N 14.8058478°E / 50.9044692; 14.8058478Coordinates: 50°54′16″N 14°48′21″E / 50.9044692°N 14.8058478°E / 50.9044692; 14.8058478
Line(s)
Platforms 7 normal gauge
2 narrow gauge
Other information
Station code 7032
DS100 codeDZ
Category4 [1]
Website http://www.bahnhof.de/bahnhof-de/Zittau.html
History
Opened 10 June 1848
Services
Preceding station   Vogtlandbahn   Following station
Oberoderwitz
toward Dresden Hbf
RE 2
Trilex
Hrádek nad Nisou
toward Zittau or Liberec
Mittelherwigsdorf
toward Dresden Hbf
RB 61
Trilex		Terminus
Mittelherwigsdorf
toward Rybniště or Seifhennersdorf
L 7
Trilex
Hrádek nad Nisou
toward Liberec
Preceding station   Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn   Following station
Hirschfelde
toward Cottbus
OE 65Terminus
Location
Zittau
Location within Saxony

Zittau railway station (German: Bahnhof Zittau) is a railway station in Zittau, Germany. The station is located on the Liberec–Zittau, Zittau–Löbau and Zittau–Hagenwerder standard gauge lines as well as it is one terminus of narrow gauge Zittau–Kurort Oybin/Kurort Jonsdorf railway. Until 1945 narrow gauge Zittau–Hermsdorf railway to today's Bogatynia in Poland and Heřmanice in the Czech Republic also began at Zittau station.

The normal gauge parts of the station are operated by DB Station&Service (platforms) and DB Netz (tracks), narrow gauge parts by Saxon-Upper Lusatian Railway Company.

Services

Railway services

As of May 2017 there are hourly services to Bischofswerda and Dresden (lines RE 2 and RB 61 run by Vogtlandbahn), to Liberec (lines RE 2 and L 7 run by Vogtlandbahn), Varnsdorf–Rybniště/Seifhennersdorf (line L 7 run by Vogtlandbahn) and to Görlitz and Cottbus (line OE 65 run by Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn). 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.[2]

Local transport

City bus lines A, B and C as well as many regional bus lines frequently stop at this station.[3] 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.

A map showing the extensive tracks of Zittau railway station as of 2012.

References

  1. ↑ "Stationspreisliste 2018" [Station price list 2018] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  2. ↑ Timetables for Zittau railway station (in German)
  3. ↑ Map of bus services in Zittau by Verkehrsverbund Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien
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