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and continuing to western
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in 1961, the line was unattractive for direct long-distance passenger trains from Halle and
Leipzig to Berlin because eastern Berlin could only be reached indirectly via the
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Wittenberg line at Meinsdorf; on 1 June 1923 this was followed by the opening of the section from Wiesenburg to Jeber-Bergfrieden.
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train stopped at Dessau in 2007. The only long-distance trains to use the line now are night trains.
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989:Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas)
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798:Brandenburg
298:Brandenburg
178:from Berlin
82:Track gauge
73:Line length
44:Brandenburg
32:Line number
1038:Categories
970:References
944:Interregio
895:After the
866:Wiesenburg
975:Footnotes
960:InterCity
890:Frankfurt
886:Wiesbaden
842:main line
751:to Dessau
566:Meinsdorf
227:to Güsten
135:Route map
68:Technical
50:, Germany
1023:7 August
275:Medewitz
125:catenary
105: in
27:Overview
1010:Sources
917:Potsdam
913:Rostock
824:History
814:Leipzig
398:Thießen
100:⁄
55:Service
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909:Seddin
875:Roßlau
870:Güsten
862:Belzig
834:German
818:Dessau
806:Berlin
595:Rossel
421:Rossel
150:Legend
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1025:2010
993:ISBN
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