Wilhelmsburg station is a station on the Harburg S-Bahn line and is served by the rapid transit

Rapid transit

A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway, metro or metropolitan railway system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Rapid transit systems are typically located either in underground tunnels or on...

 trains of the Hamburg S-Bahn

Hamburg S-Bahn

The Hamburg S-Bahn is a railway network for public rapid mass transit in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. Together the S-Bahn, the Hamburg U-Bahn, the AKN railway and the regional railway form the backbone of railway public transport in the city and the surrounding area...

. The railway station is located in the quarter Wilhelmsburg in the Hamburg-Mitte

Hamburg-Mitte

Hamburg-Mitte located in the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg, Germany is one of the seven boroughs of Hamburg, covering mostly the urban center of the city of Hamburg. The quarters Hamburg-Altstadt and Neustadt are the historical origin of Hamburg...

 borough of the city of 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...

, Germany

Germany

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The station is listed as a Bf (Bahnhof)

Railway station types of Germany

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 (train station), a place where trains may start, end or change directions, and that has at least one set of points

Railroad switch

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. The station is managed by DB Station&Service

DB Station&Service

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, a subsiary of the German railway Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn

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History

On 1 December 1897, the Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn started its service on the Rollbahn

Rollbahn

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line. In 1983 — after 10 years of construction, the first part of Hamburg's southern S-Bahn line from Central Station

Hamburg Hauptbahnhof

is the Hauptbahnhof for the German city of Hamburg. It was opened in 1906 to replace 4 terminal stations. Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is operated by DB Station&Service...

 toward Harburg were completed and opened with the new Wilhelmsburg station.

Layout

The station is fully accessible for handicapped persons, because the highest step is 5 centimetre. It has exits on both ends of the island platform

Island platform

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 and a flat roof

Flat roof

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Trains

The rapid transit

Rapid transit

A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway, metro or metropolitan railway system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Rapid transit systems are typically located either in underground tunnels or on...

 trains of the lines S3 and S31 of the Hamburg S-Bahn are calling the station. The trains of the line S3 connect the towns Pinneberg

Pinneberg

Pinneberg is a town in Schleswig-Holstein, capital of the district Pinneberg in Germany. The town has 42,301 inhabitants. Pinneberg is located 18 km northwest of Hamburg....

 and Stade

Stade

Stade is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany and part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region . It is the seat of the district named after it...

 via Hamburg center.

Facilities at the station

There are no lockboxes and no personnel are attending the station, but there are SOS and information telephones, ticket machine

Ticket machine

A ticket machine, also known as a ticket vending machine , is a vending machine that produces tickets. For instance, ticket machines dispense train tickets at railway stations and tram tickets at some tram stops and in some trams...

s, toilets and a small shop.

See also

• Hamburger Verkehrsverbund HVV
  Hamburger Verkehrsverbund
  The Hamburger Verkehrsverbund is a company coordinating the public transport in and around Hamburg, Germany. Its main objectives are to provide the user with a unified fare system, requiring only a single ticket for journeys with transfers between different operating companies, and to further...
  
  
• List of Hamburg S-Bahn stations

External links

• DB station information
• Network plan HVV (pdf) 560 KiB