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Zittau
Zittau
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	The station building in 2014 as seen from south, the bus station in front of it
General information
Location	Bahnhofstr. 39, 02763 Zittau; Saxony, Germany
Coordinates	50°54′16″N 14°48′21″E / 50.9044692°N 14.8058478°E
Line(s)	Zittau – Löbau (km 26.745); Liberec – Zittau (km 26.745); Zittau – Hagenwerder (km 0.008); Zittau – Hermsdorf (km 0.008) (defunct); Zittau – Kurort Oybin/Kurort Jonsdorf (km 0.008);
Platforms	7 normal gauge; 2 narrow gauge
Other information
Station code	7032
DS100 code	DZ
Category	4
Website	http://www.bahnhof.de/bahnhof-de/Zittau.html
History
Opened	10 June 1848

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Zittau railway station (German: Bahnhof Zittau) is a railway station in Zittau, Germany. The station is located on the Liberec–Zittau, Zittau–Löbau and Zittau–Hagenwerder standard gauge lines as well as it is one terminus of narrow gauge Zittau–Kurort Oybin/Kurort Jonsdorf railway. Until 1945 narrow gauge Zittau–Hermsdorf railway to today's Bogatynia in Poland and Heřmanice in the Czech Republic also began at Zittau station.

The normal gauge parts of the station are operated by DB Station&Service (platforms) and DB Netz (tracks), narrow gauge parts by Saxon-Upper Lusatian Railway Company.

Services

Railway services

As of May 2017 there are hourly services to Bischofswerda and Dresden (lines RE 2 and RB 61 run by Vogtlandbahn), to Liberec (lines RE 2 and L 7 run by Vogtlandbahn), Varnsdorf–Rybniště/Seifhennersdorf (line L 7 run by Vogtlandbahn) and to Görlitz and Cottbus (line OE 65 run by Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn). Narrow gauge services to Kurort Oybin and/or Kurort Jonsdorf run five times daily during main tourist seasons, two times daily during off-season. On summer weekend days there are three additional pairs of trains, which makes a peak of up to eight daily trains on summer weekend days.^[2]

A class 642 DMU of DB Regio in May 2014 running as RB 61 to Dresden. This service was overtaken in December 2014 by Vogtlandbahn, which uses the same type of cars.
Before cross-border line L7 (initially named as TLX) between Liberec, Zittau, Rybniště and Seifhennersdorf started operation in December 2010, there had been regular services by České dráhy even in Zittau.
Narrow gauge steam train of SOEG to Kurort Oybin in 2014.
Entrance to the narrow gauge station in 2011.

Local transport

City bus lines A, B and C as well as many regional bus lines frequently stop at this station.^[3] The bus station is located in front of the railway station building.

Station overview

The standard gauge facilities are situated north of the station building, the narrow gauge facilities south of it. The narrow gauge passenger station is located east of the square, a depot west of it.

External links

Media related to Zittau railway station at Wikimedia Commons

References

^ "Stationspreisliste 2025" [Station price list 2025] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
^ Timetables for Zittau railway station (in German)
^ Map of bus services in Zittau by Verkehrsverbund Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien

[categories-1] "Stationspreisliste 2025" [Station price list 2025] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024.

[2] Timetables for Zittau railway station (in German)

[3] Map of bus services in Zittau by Verkehrsverbund Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien

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