America Line

The America Line was originally the central element of direct links from Magdeburg and, most importantly, Berlin to the North Sea ports.

It was given its colloquial name because many emigrants from East and West Prussia, Silesia and the provinces of Posen and Pomerania travelled on the line to Bremerhaven, where there was a connexion to emigration ships sailing to America at the "Old" and "New" Lloydhalle and Kaiserhafen and Nordenham Lloydpier until the WW1, later, since 1928, on the Columbus Quay (Columbuskaje).

In the opposite direction, many goods trains laden with fresh fish ran from Bremerhaven to the capital of the German Reich.

Because Kaiser Wilhelm II occasionally travelled on this route from Berlin to the naval bases on the North Sea, it is sometimes also called the Emperor Line (Kaiserlinie).

During the Cold War, the line was cut next to Nienbergen station as a result of the creation of the Inner German border.