Celle station is a railway station in the municipality of Celle, located in the Celle district in Lower Saxony, Germany. The station is served hourly by Intercity/ICE trains to Hanover and Hamburg. In regional traffic, trains of the Metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft connect Celle with Hamburg and Uelzen as well as Hanover and Göttingen. Celle is the terminus of the S6 and S7 lines of the Hannover S-Bahn. History On October 15, 1845, Celle received its first railway connection, which started in Lehrte and could be reached via Hanover and Braunschweig. On May 1, 1847, the extension to Harburg was opened. The first station building was designed by Conrad Wilhelm Hase. In 1905, the railway line from Celle to Wahnebergen was completed, and in 1913, the railway line from Gifhorn Stadt to Celle was opened. On September 1, 1920, the railway line from Celle to Brunswick was operational up to Uetze, and in 1923, the entire line to Braunschweig was open. A new station building was built between 1916 and 1919. On May 15, 1938, the railway line to Langenhagen, which had already been started in 1913, was opened, and a large part of long-distance traffic to Hanover has since run on it. In 1966, passenger traffic to Verden was discontinued, and freight traffic gradually reduced until 2005, when the airport in Wietzenbruch was still accessible by rail. Passenger traffic towards Braunschweig ended in 1971, and the last section to Nienhagen was discontinued for freight traffic in 1990. In 1981, passenger traffic to Gifhorn ended, and freight traffic was still possible until 1993 to Müden-Dieckhorst. In 2019, elevators were installed on the platforms, and from 2012 to 2015, the station building and platforms were renovated, with new roofs added to the platforms. The station was transformed into a "light art station". In December 2020, the DB travel centre at the station was closed, and a service centre for the metronom railway company was opened to take over ticket sales. Facilities The train station has three partially covered central platforms with tracks 2 to 7, which are accessible barrier-free via a tunnel. Due to the platform height of 55 cm on platforms 4 and 5, barrier-free boarding is currently not possible. Track 5 (north) and track 6 (south) serve long-distance and regional trains and are also used for freight and long-distance passenger train crossings. Tracks 4 and 7 are mainly used as sidings.