Büchen station

Büchen station is a railway junction in Büchen in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. About 4,000 passengers embark or disembark each day (as of 2013).In front of the station building there is a bus stop with connections to the surrounding villages. Büchen station is served by trains on the Berlin–Hamburg and Lübeck–Lüneburg lines.During the division of Germany, Büchen was a border station on the line between Berlin and Hamburg in the Federal Republic of Germany.HistoryThe station was opened on 15 October 1851 with the completion of the Lübeck–Büchen section of the Lübeck–Lüneburg line by the Lübeck-Büchen Railway (German: Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn, LBE). It is also located on the Berlin-Hamburg line, which had already been opened in 1846. Simultaneously with the opening of the Büchen line of the LBE, the Berlin-Hamburg Railway Company (Berlin-Hamburger Eisenbahn-Aktiengesellschaft), opened a branch line from Büchen to Lauenburg. Passenger services were soon running on the Lübeck–Lauenburg route and after the opening of the bridge over the Elbe in Lauenburg to Lüneburg.In April 1945, the station was seriously damaged by bombing and, at the end of the month, German troops demolished the bridge over the Elbe–Lübeck Canal to the east of the station.