Husum station is in Husum in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...

. It was built in 1910 and is currently operated by Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn AG is the German national railway company, a private joint stock company . Headquartered in Berlin, it came into existence in 1994 as the successor to the former state railways of Germany, the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany...

, which classifies it as a category 3 station

German railway station categories

About 5,400 railway stations in Germany that are owned and operated by the Deutsche Bahn subsidiary DB Station&Service are assigned into seven categories, denoting the service level available at the station....

. A less prestigious predecessor (built in 1854 and demolished in 1910) was located at the northern end of the station, another station (Husum Nord) is to the north of the current main station.

Importance

The station is a railway hub, connecting the Westerland–Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 line (Marsh Railway) with the route to Husum–Bad St. Peter-Ording line on the Eiderstedt

Eiderstedt

Eiderstedt is a peninsula in the district of Nordfriesland in the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.-Overview:It is approximately 30 km in length and 15 km in width and has been created through diking from three islands: Eiderstedt around Tönning, Utholm around Tating, and...

 peninsula and the Husum–Jübek line, which connects to the Neumünster–Flensburg line and Kiel.

Operations

All lines are now operated by the Nord-Ostsee-Bahn (NOB) service (now a subsidiary of Veolia Verkehr

Veolia Verkehr

Veolia Verkehr GmbH is a private operator of passenger buses and trains in Germany. On April 3, 2006, Connex Verkehr GmbH was renamed Veolia Verkehr GmbH, but the sister companies kept their current names....

).However, some InterCity

Intercity (Deutsche Bahn)

Intercity is the second-highest train classification in Germany, after the ICE. Intercity services are loco-hauled express services, usually over long-distances. There are Intercity routes throughout Germany, and routes generally operate with a two-hour frequency, with multiple routes giving a more...

trains are operated by Deutsche Bahn.

Platforms

The station has several platform tracks, but only four of them have a platform that is in use. Trains leave as follows:

• Platform track 1: regional trains to and from Kiel
• Platform track 3: regional trains to and from Bad St. Peter-Ording, regional trains to and from Kiel
• Platform track 4: long distance and Regional trains to Westerland
• Platform track 5: long distance and regional trains to Hamburg, regional trains to and from Bad St. Peter-Ording

All these services stop in Husum about every 30 minutes.

The two central platforms are 76 cm high. The platform on tracks 4 and 5 is 430 metres long, the one on tracks 1-3 is 360 metres long.

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