Gotha station
Railway station in Germany
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Gotha station is the main station of Gotha in the German state of Thuringia. It is served by InterCity trains and every two hours by Intercity-Express trains on the Thuringian Railway. Services on the Gotha–Leinefelde line to the north also serve the station. Passenger services on the Ohra Valley Railway (Ohratalbahn) to the south ended in December 2011.
Germany
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| Location | Bahnhofstr. 13, Gotha, Thuringia Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°56′21″N 10°42′50″E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Deutsche Bahn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | DB InfraGO | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Architectural style | Neoclassical | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 2209[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | UGO[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8010136 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 3[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | VMT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1847 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ca. 4000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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History
Gotha station was built in 1847, when the local section of the Thuringian line was completed between Halle and Bebra. Gotha was at this time the provincial capital of Saxe-Gotha and had 15,000 inhabitants. The station was built in a neoclassical style. In 1870 the second line was built, the Gotha–Leinefelde railway (Gotha via Mühlhausen to Leinefelde, continuing to Göttingen). The third and last line connecting to Gotha station was the Ohra Valley Railway opened in 1876 to Ohrdruf and to the line to Würzburg at Gräfenroda in 1892 (de).
In 1894 the Gotha tramway was opened. The station was the junction of several tram lines. In 1929, the Thuringian Forest Railway (Thüringerwaldbahn), an overland interurban tramway was opened from Gotha station, running across the city tramlines and continuing to Bad Tabarz via Waltershausen and Friedrichroda. On 6 February 1945, three months before VE day, a USAAF air strike hit the Reichsbahn premises, the passenger station, the Reichsbahn repair workshop (80% destroyed) and the adjacent city centre area.
In 2007, the station forecourt was completely restructured and the stop on the Thuringian Forest Railway was relocated.
Services
The following services stopped at Gotha station in 2022.
| Line | Route | Interval (mins) | Operator |
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| ICE 15 | Eisenach → Gotha → Erfurt → Halle → Berlin → Eberswalde → Stralsund → Binz | One train | DB Fernverkehr |
| ICE 50 | (Saarbrücken –) Wiesbaden – Frankfurt – Fulda – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – Leipzig – Dresden | 120 | |
| IC 51 | Frankfurt am Main – Hanau – Schlüchtern – Fulda – Hünfeld – Bad Hersfeld – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt | 1 train pair | |
| Düsseldorf/Cologne – Kassel – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – Weimar – Jena West – Jena-Göschwitz – Gera | 2 train pairs | ||
| Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Bebra – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – Weimar – Jena – Gera | 1 train pair | ||
| Leipzig – Weimar – Erfurt – Gotha – Eisenach – Fulda – Hanau – Frankfurt am Main | Some trains, relief trains (Fri, Sun) | ||
| Cologne/Düsseldorf – Essen – Bochum – Dortmund – Kassel – Bebra – Gotha – Erfurt – Weimar – Leipzig | |||
| FLX 10 | Berlin Hbf – Berlin Südkreuz – Halle (Saale) – Erfurt – Gotha – Eisenach – Fulda – Frankfurt South – Darmstadt – Weinheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart | 1–2 train pairs daily | |
| RE 1 | Göttingen – Leinefelde – Gotha – Erfurt – Jena-Göschwitz – Gera – Gößnitz – Glauchau (Sachs) | 120 | DB Regio Südost |
| RB 20 | Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – Weimar – Apolda – Naumburg (Saale) – Weißenfels – Leipzig Hbf | 60 | Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland |
| RB 53 | Gotha – Gotha Ost – Bufleben – Ballstädt – Eckardtsleben – Bad Langensalza | 120 | DB Regio Südost |
The Thuringian Forest Railway (interurban tramway to Waltershausen) runs from the forecourt.