Büchen is a municipality with approx. 6,100 inhabitants in the southeast of Schleswig-Holstein. The station was opened on October 15, 1851 and is a wedge station. The station is the meeting point for the Hamburg - Berlin and Lübeck - Lüneburg rail lines. During the time of the division of Germany, Büchen station was the last station on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. The station consists of six tracks, four of which are platform tracks. Tracks 1 to 4 belong to the Berlin - Hamburg line and tracks (1) 40 & 41 to the Lübeck - Lüneburg line. While the platforms on the Berlin route are both side platforms, there is an island platform and a side platform on the Lüneburg route. The island platform has track numbers 40 & 41, and the side platform number 140 although it is also on track 40. The island platform can be reached via a level crossing, the barriers of which close without warning.
Holding:
RE1 Hanse Express
Hamburg main station - Schwarzenbek - Büchen - Boizenburg (Elbe) - Pritztier - Schwerin main station - Bad Kleinen - Blankenberg (Mecklenburg) - Schwaan - Rostock main station | Br182 or 120.2 + Dostos Hamburg - Büchen (-Schwerin HVZ) 60min cycle, Hamburg - Rostock 120min cycle as well as individual amplifier services DB Regio
RE83
Kiel Hbf - Raisdorf - Preetz - Plön - Bad Malente-Gremsmühlen - Eutin - Bad Schwartau - Lübeck Hbf - Lübeck University District - Lübeck Airport - Ratzeburg - Mölln - Büchen - Lauenburg (Elbe) - Echem - Lüneburg | 1xBr648 60min cycle DB Regio
Individual Eurocity and ICEs
Driving through:
ICE 11
(Hamburg - / Berlin Gesundbrunnen -) Berlin Hbf - Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Leipzig - Erfurt - Fulda - Frankfurt - Mannheim - Stuttgart - Augsburg - Munich
ICE 18
(Hamburg - / Berlin Gesundbrunnen -) Berlin Hbf - Bitterfeld - Halle - Erfurt - Erlangen - Nuremberg - Ingolstadt / Augsburg - Munich
ICE 28
Hamburg - Berlin - Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Leipzig - Erfurt - Bamberg - Nuremberg - Ingolstadt / Augsburg - Munich
ICE 26
(Ostseebad Binz -) Stralsund - Rostock - Hamburg - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Gießen - Frankfurt - Heidelberg - Karlsruhe
EC 27
(Kiel ) Hamburg - Berlin - Dresden - Praha ( Brno - Budapest)
IC 30
Züssow - Greifswald - Stralsund / Ostseebad-Binz - Stralsund - Rostock - Schwerin - Hamburg - Bremen - Osnabrück - Münster - Dortmund - Bochum - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Remagen - Andernach - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Stuttgart - Karlsruhe - Offenburg