Eckernförde station

Eckernförde station is the station of the town of Eckernförde in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It is a through station and the most important en-route station on the Kiel–Flensburg railway. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station. To the north of the entrance building there was also a terminal station of the Eckernförde District Railway (Eckernförder Kreisbahnen) until 1958.Rail servicesEckernförde station has three platform tracks and other tracks that do not have platforms. Currently, tracks 1 and 2 are used for passenger services–until 2007 these were tracks 1 and 3: track 1 is used by through trains running between Kiel and Flensburg and between Flensburg and Kiel, in the off-peak it sometimes used by trains running between Kiel and Eckernförde and return;track 2 is mainly reserved for trains between Kiel and Eckernförde and return and it is also partly used in peak hours by long-distance trains. The length of the platforms is (in rounded figures) 225 metres for track 1, 370 m for track 2 and 426 m for track 3. The latter has since been downgraded to a railway siding. The Kiel–Flensburg railway is operated (with variations in peak hours) usually every hour by Regionalbahn Schleswig-Holstein; hourly trains between Kiel and Eckernförde are operated by the Nord-Ostsee-Bahn, offset by half an hour. On most days Eckernförde is served between about 4:30 a.m. and 1:20 a.m.