page_title: Wittenberge station
section_title: Upgrade
hierarchical_section_title: Wittenberge station / History / Upgrade
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bahnhof Wittenberge. English: Wittenberge train station.
context_page_description: Wittenberge station is the railway station for the Brandenburg town of Wittenberge in Germany. About 5,000 passengers use the station daily and it is served by around 100 trains per day.
context_section_description: Wittenberge station was comprehensively refurbished as part of the upgrade of the Berlin-Hamburg Railway in 2000. It lost its status as an island station, as all the tracks are now on the eastern side of the station building. The so-called Magdeburg Side lost its tracks, the line from Stendal being re-routed south of the building on the Berlin Side. The number of tracks was also significantly reduced.
  The refurbishment required 280,000 tonnes of earth to be moved, around 22 kilometres track to be replaced, 120 points to be removed, 42 points to be installed and 32 kilometres of catenary to be replaced. The running speed through the station was raised from 30 to 160 km/h; an increase to 197 km/h, which was also considered, would have required the control of active tilting technology by the train safety system, LZB, but this was not put into practice. A total of seven million euros was invested.
  The opening of the rebuilt station took place on 24 August 2004 in the presence of the German chancellor,  Gerhard Schröder.
caption: End of the tracks at a buffer stop on the western side of the station
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