page_title: Bad Harzburg station
section_title: Rail service
hierarchical_section_title: Bad Harzburg station / Rail service
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Blick auf die Bahnsteige in Bad Harzburg, Mai 2017. Der Bahnsteig 5/6 wird erneuert.
context_page_description: Bad Harzburg railway station serves the spa town of Bad Harzburg in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the southern terminus of the Brunswick–Bad Harzburg railway, one of the oldest lines in Germany, and the eastern terminus of a branch line to nearby Oker station. Regional rail services are operated by Deutsche Bahn AG and Erixx GmbH.
context_section_description: While predominately local services were operated on the line to and from Brunswick, the trains on the lines opened in 1894 and 1912 were used especially for holiday traffic. With the opening of the line to Oker in 1912, the trains coming from Halberstadt mostly continued to Goslar. The summer timetable of 1914 listed 14 train pairs plus two train pairs in the summer months only on the line to Vienenburg/Brunswick. Seven train pairs shuttled between Halberstadt/Wernigerode, Bad Harzburg and Goslar each day, four pairs of trains ran from Bad Harzburg to both Halberstadt/Wernigerode and Goslar daily, a pair of trains ran to Goslar on weekdays and various holiday trains served the station. The KED Magdeburg therefore planned the doubling of the track between Ilsenburg and Bad Harzburg. The project did not proceed because of the First World War and it was not implemented after the war.
  The services operated in the 1920s and 1930s were similar to those of 1914. During the Great Depression, however, the holiday services operated were reduced to about the same level as during the world wars. In addition to the local trains running to Brunswick, Halberstadt and Goslar in the summer of 1939, five pairs of express trains ran through Bad Harzburg. These were direct services to Berlin, Magdeburg, Halle (Saale), Hildesheim or Hanover.
  After 1946, the line from Bad Harzburg towards Wernigerode and Halberstadt was blocked after Eckertal. The remaining section was served by Deutsche Bundesbahn with two pairs of trains on working days from 1950. It stopped passenger operations in 1955. Freight traffic to a sawmill in Eckertal continued for another two years, but had to be abandoned due to the track going out of gauge on the curves. Until the sawmill burned down in 1963, Deutsche Bundesbahn supplied it by substitute services (trucks). The connections to the west and north, however, were expanded and in the summer of 1950, for example, there were express trains to Hanover and Düsseldorf and through coaches to Bonn and the Hook of Holland.
  After German reunification the district of Wernigerode planned the restoration of the connection from Bad Harzburg via Eckertal and Stapelburg towards Wernigerode. Because both Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Reichsbahn sought a continuous connection from Halle to Brunswick and Hanover, a reversal in Bad Harzburg would have been unavoidable. The closing of the gap would therefore be further north at Vienenburg, making possible a direct connection via Goslar, bypassing Bad Harzburg.
  The Harz-Express (RE 4), which was added to the summer timetable and ran from Hanover to Halle via Goslar and Halberstadt temporarily, ran through Bad Harzburg. In the spring of 2012, the Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony Transport Company, a state agency which is responsible for organising passenger rail services in parts of Lower Saxony) announced that the services between Hanover and Goslar would be abandoned from the beginning of the 2015 timetable and the service would run directly from Goslar to Vienenburg. The service from Hanover to Bad Harzburg would be handled at the same frequency, hourly, as the RE 10. Operation on this line and two other regional railway services from Bad Harzburg to Brunswick and Göttingen were taken over by Erixx from the timetable change on 12 December 2014, a subsidiary of Osthannoverschen Eisenbahn.
  The station is served by the following trains (as of 2018):
caption: View of the platforms in Bad Harzburg, May 2017. Platform 5/6 is being renewed. On the right is an Erixx diesel multiple unit.
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