Lübeck–Hamburg railway

Lübeck–Hamburg
The Lübeck–Hamburg line
Overview
Line number1120
LocaleSchleswig-Holstein and Hamburg
Service
Route number104, 140
Technical
Line length62.8 km (39.0 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
Electrification15 kV/16.7 Hz AC overhead catenary
Route map

0.000
Lübeck Hbf
to Bad Segeberg
2.150
Lübeck main freight yard
Lübeck-Genin
2.488
4.747
5.800
less 1053 m
Lübeck-Moisling
(in planning)
7.52
Lübeck-Niendorf
Trave
15.833
Reinfeld (Holstein)
Trave
(39.969) 23.887
Bad Oldesloe
(S-Bahn planned)
to Schwarzenbek
(33.885) 29.971
Kupfermühle
(S-Bahn planned)
28.451 35.405
Bargteheide
(S-Bahn planned)
(end of planned S-Bahn)
23.946 39.910
Ahrensburg-Gartenholz
(S-Bahn planned)
40.3
Ahrensburg Nord
(siding)
41.242
Hünnau
21.419 42.437
Ahrensburg
(S-Bahn planned)
43.491
U1 Volksdorf – Großhansdorf
Ahrensburg West
(planned)
16.827 47.029
16.079
Stellmoorer Quellfluss
13.583
Wandse
51.0
Hamburg-Rahlstedt Bbf
12.691
Wandse
12.223 51.665
Hamburg-Rahlstedt
(S-Bahn planned)
10.864
Wandse
10.496
Pulverhof
(planned)
9.273 54.436
Hamburg-Tonndorf (formerly
Wandsbek Ost, dismantling planned)
7.620
Holstenhofweg
(planned)
6.829
System change DC/AC (planned)
6.038
Bovestraße
(planned)
5.844
Gehölzgraben
58.200
Hamburg-Wandsbek
(passenger services closed in 2021)
5.329
Claudiusstraße
(planned)
4.590
4.300
4.170 59.689
Hamburg Hasselbrook
2.793
Landwehr
1.530
Hamburg Berliner Tor
S-Bahn from Bergedorf, from Berlin
0.110 63.896
Hamburg Hbf
Source: German railway atlas

The Hamburg–Lübeck railway is one of the most important mainline railways of the German states of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. It connects the two Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lübeck, and is part of the line to Denmark. The line was opened in 1865.