Gotha station

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 to the south ended in December 2011.

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.
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.
In 1894 the Gotha tramway was opened. The station was the junction of several tram lines. In 1929, the Thuringian Forest Railway, 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 and the adjacent city centre area.
In 2007, the station forecourt was completely restructured and the stop on the Thuringian Forest Railway was relocated.

The following services stopped at Gotha station in 2022.

Line	Route	Interval	Operator
	Eisenach → Gotha → Erfurt → Halle → Berlin → Eberswalde → Stralsund → Binz station\|Binz]	One train	DB Fernverkehr
	Wiesbaden – Frankfurt – Fulda – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – Leipzig – Dresden	120	DB Fernverkehr
	Frankfurt am Main – Hanau – Schlüchtern – Fulda – Hünfeld – Bad Hersfeld – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt	1 train pair	DB Fernverkehr
	Düsseldorf/Cologne – Kassel – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – – – – Gera	2 train pairs	DB Fernverkehr
	Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – – Jena – Gera	1 train pair	DB Fernverkehr
	Leipzig – Weimar – Erfurt – Gotha – Eisenach – Fulda – Hanau – Frankfurt am Main	Some trains, relief trains	DB Fernverkehr
	Cologne/Düsseldorf – Essen – Bochum – Dortmund – Kassel – Bebra – Gotha – Erfurt – Weimar – Leipzig	Some trains, relief trains	DB Fernverkehr
	Berlin Hbf – Berlin Südkreuz – Halle (Saale) – Erfurt – Gotha – Eisenach – Fulda – Darmstadt – Weinheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart	1–2 train pairs daily	-
	Göttingen – Leinefelde – Gotha – Erfurt – Jena-Göschwitz – Gera – Gößnitz – Glauchau (Sachs)	120	DB Regio Südost
	Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – Weimar – Apolda – Naumburg (Saale) – Weißenfels – Leipzig Hbf	60	Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland
	Gotha – Gotha Ost – Bufleben – Ballstädt – Eckardtsleben – Bad Langensalza	120	DB Regio Südost

The Thuringian Forest Railway runs from the forecourt.