Soltau (Han) station
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| Location | Am Bahnhof 1, Soltau, Lower Saxony Germany | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°58′59″N 9°49′55″E / 52.98300°N 9.83190°E | |||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 4 | |||||||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 5892 | |||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | HSO | |||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000088 | |||||||||||||||
| Category | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | HVV: F/1028 | |||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1873 | |||||||||||||||
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Soltau (Han) station is in the town of Soltau in the German state of Lower Saxony, located in the centre of the Lüneburg Heath. As a junction station on two railway lines, Hannover Hbf – Buchholz (Heath Railway) and Bremen Hbf – Uelzen (Uelzen–Langwedel railway), it is a central transport hub of the region and serves commuters and visitors to the Lüneburg Heath as a destination and transfer station.
The station was opened in 1873 and by the mid-20th century it was served by local and long-distance services running in seven different directions. The America Line (Amerikalinie), which ran from Berlin to Bremerhaven via Soltau, had considerable significance for passenger and goods traffic from the ports of the North Sea at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, Schnellzug (semi-fast) services also ran. In addition, there were connections to several light railways to Lüneburg, Celle and Neuenkirchen. After the Second World War, the America Line increasingly lost its national significance. Passenger traffic on the light railways has been discontinued.