page_title: Grabow (Meckl) station
section_title: Passenger services
hierarchical_section_title: Grabow (Meckl) station / History / Passenger services
caption_attribution_description: English: Grabow station, freight shed, close to Ludwigslust, line Berlin-Hamburg Deutsch: Bahnhof Grabow (Meckl), Güterschuppen
context_page_description: Grabow (Meckl) station is located on the Berlin–Hamburg railway in Grabow in the south west of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Together with four other stations, which also opened on 15 October 1846, it is the oldest station in the state. The Neoclassical entrance building, which dates from the opening of the line, and some other buildings in the station area are heritage-listed.
context_section_description: In the first years of operation of the line, the station was connected by two pairs of passenger trains and a pair of freight trains (with passenger accommodation) with Hamburg and Berlin and there was also a service from Hamburg to Wittenberge and back. 
  Before the Second World War, the rail service was relatively active. Grabow station was served by a total of nine pairs of trains a day in 1939. These included four through pairs between Hamburg and Berlin, two pairs of trains between Hamburg and Wittenberge and three pairs that shuttled between Ludwiglust and Grabow. Express (Schnellzug) and semi-fast (Eilzug) passenger trains did not stop at the station.
  The importance of the station for passengers increased after the Second World War. In the early 1950s, there was a continuous pair of semi-fast trains from Rostock via Schwerin and Grabow to Zwickau; this service increased during the following four decades to up to four pairs of trains a day. From the 1960s until the early 1990s, the service ran to the south from the station at around 3am in the morning from Schwerin to Nauen, a morning train ran from Rostock to Nauen, an afternoon train ran from Schwerin to Berlin and in the early evening a train ran between Schwerin and Wittenberge. In the opposite direction, a fast train from Berlin to Schwerin reached Grabow around 3am, a morning train ran from Wittenberge to Schwerin, at noon a train ran from Nauen to Schwerin and in the early evening a train from Nauen to Rostock reached the station. After Die Wende (the change), traffic increased significantly to Hamburg as direct trains were established.
  In the mid-1990s, services were extended and the timetable provided regular-interval services. Since then, Grabow station has been served every two hours. The 2012 timetable provided connections on the RE 2  service from Grabow directly to Wismar, Schwerin and Ludwigslust in the north and to Wittenberge, Nauen, Berlin and Cottbus in the south.
caption: Former goods shed and platform for traffic towards Ludwigslust
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