page_title: Rathenow railway station
section_title: Passenger services
hierarchical_section_title: Rathenow railway station / Passenger services
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Land Brandenburg; Landkreis Havelland. Rathenow, Städtebahn Bahnhof . Baudenkmal: Bahnhof der Städtebahn
context_page_description: Rathenow is a railway station on the Berlin–Lehrte railway located in Rathenow, in the Havelland, Germany. It is used by about 3,300 passengers daily.
  The station consists of the main building, located on the Dunckerplatz, later partly renamed as the Bahnhofsvorplatz, a disused water tower and the former entrance building for the German Emperor, which now serves as a tourist information office and a bike rental agency. The station also has a platform subway connecting to platform tracks 3 and 4, which are used by the Brandenburg Towns Railway, a parking area with 133 spaces and parking for 80 bicycles, 20 of which are covered.
  Rathenow station also included a terminus of the former 750 mm gauge Rathenow-Senzke-Nauen District Railway. Outside the station there are still remnants of the tracks of the District Railway, which are heritage-listed. The also listed remains of the Brandenburg Towns Railway, including the reception building, are on the south side of the station.
context_section_description: Until the Second World War, the Lehrte railway was an important long-distance connection between Berlin and parts of Germany to the west of Rathenow. Some express trains stopped in Rathenow.
  After 1945, the importance of the line for passenger declined significantly as express trains stopped running on it. Until the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, there were passenger trains from Rathenow to Staaken on the border with West Berlin, where it was possible to change to the Berlin S-Bahn. It was then only possible for trains to reach Rathenow from East Berlin via the Berlin outer ring, with a reversal in Wustermark, and there were only two direct express services a day between Berlin, Rathenow and Stendal.
  After 1990, Rathenow had rail services until 1995, when the line was blockaded for the reconstruction of the line. Express trains from Berlin to Amsterdam stopped at the station during this period. After the opening of the high-speed line in 1998, the station was served every two hours from 1998 by an InterRegio service. Direct Regional-Express trains have run directly to Berlin at hourly intervals since then. Stops for long-distance were temporarily resumed in 2008 and 2009, when no regional trains could run to Stendal due to the construction of the new bridge over the Havel.
  The station is served by the following service(s):
  Regional services RE 4 Rathenow - Wustermark - Berlin - Ludwigsfelde - Jüterbog
  Local services RB 34 Stendal - Rathenow
  Local services RB 51 Rathenow - Brandenburg
caption: Heritage-listed station building of the Brandenburg Towns Railway
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