West German territory so that trains ran further west to Vorsfelde, where they could reverse to run to the east to reach Oebisfelde. Railway operations were resumed to West Germany on 8 December 1945. Oebisfelde thus became a border station. The corresponding station on the western side was at Wolfsburg. During the Berlin Blockade, cross-border traffic in Oebisfelde came to a halt from 24 June to 9 September 1948. In 1952, a five kilometre-wide exclusion zone was established at the inner German border to prevent the escape of citizens from East Germany (GDR). Oebisfelde station was in this zone. In the same year, the southernmost track of the station, track 1 was moved away from the other tracks so that passenger services to/from West Germany could be handled there. Track 2, which was to the north of track 1, had no platform. The border crossing facilities were located immediately south of track 1 and west of the station building . On 15 July 1954, an interzone train (interzonenzug, a train between East and West Germany) ran for the first time on the Hanover–Oebisfelde–Magdeburg route. The change from Deutsche Reichsbahn locomotives to Deutsche Bundesbahn locomotives always occurred in Oebisfelde. Therefore, many powerful steam locomotives were also stationed in the locomotive depot and similarly diesel locomotives were stationed there from 1968. Interzone trains passed through Oebisfelde, but no transit trains (Transitzüge, trains running between West Berlin and West Germany without stopping in East Germany) passed through Oebisfelde. Transit trains on the Hanover–Berlin route ran via the more southerly border crossing between Helmstedt and Marienborn on the Brunswick–Magdeburg railway (near the Helmstedt–Marienborn road border crossing). A typical route of an interzone train passing through Oebisfelde was the Cologne–Leipzig route. In 1959, two interzone trains ran daily, with three in the summer. A border fence was built on the overpass at the western end of the station in 1960. In addition to the platform on track 1, there were three platforms with tracks for use within the GDR as well as the more northerly track 11 for freight trains to be dispatched to and from West Germany. This track was secured to the west by a catch point. Only when the person in charge of the Border Troops gave the order could the catch point be set to allow exit to West Germany. Even from the west there were catch points. Moreover, running through