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Karlsruhe-Durlach Station
Karlsruhe-Durlach station is the second largest station in the city of Karlsruhe in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof. It is used by services of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn and the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn, regular regional services and occasional long-distance trains. History Old station The original Durlach station was opened in the then independent community of Durlach along with the Heidelberg–Karlsruhe section of the Rhine Valley Railway, opened on 10 April 1843 by the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway (german: Großherzogliche Badische Staatsbahn). The old station was east of the current station. After the opening of the new Durlach station in 1911, the old station lost its importance and it was closed in 1913. Its freight yard, which was south of the station still existed in 1990, but its site had been built over by 2000. The Rhine Valley Railway was originally built as a line. Along with the other lines of the Baden State Railways, it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göttingen Station
Göttingen railway station, known in German as Bahnhof Göttingen, is an InterCityExpress stop on Germany's domestic long-distance rail network and the only passenger station of the city of Göttingen. Built in 1854 as the terminus of the Hanoverian Southern Railway, the station lies west of the medieval town centre. The station today has four platform islands each with two through tracks. In addition there is a through track for goods traffic between the station building and the platforms. History As part of the planning for the construction of the Hanoverian Southern Railway, the municipal council of the city of Göttingen decided in 1851 to request for the construction of a station west of its centre. During the followed three years there were sometimes heated discussions among citizens and in particular the affected landowners, until the groundbreaking ceremony in 1853. The planning was undertaken by Adolph Funk, Conrad Wilhelm Hase and Julius Rasch and construction was ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schorndorf Station
Schorndorf station is in the city of Schorndorf in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It was opened in 1861 along with the Rems Railway from Stuttgart to Aalen. The abbreviation of the station is TSF and it is currently used by about 10,000 passengers a day. Location The station is situated on the northern edge of the historic Altstadt of the city of Schorndorf in the centre of the city. Next to the station to its east is the central bus station, to the west was the former freight yard. Layout of the station The station consists of a Renaissance Revival reception building completed in 1863 with some later additions. It has six tracks, namely platform tracks 1–5 and track 14 to the west of the station. Tracks 1–3 and track 5 are in normal use while track 14 is occasionally used for S-Bahn services. Otherwise, this track is mostly used for storing S-Bahn trains. Track 5 is used exclusively for services of the Wieslauf Valley Railway. It is—since the removal of an ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaihingen (Enz) Station
Vaihingen (Enz) station is a long-distance and the regional station at an important railway junction in the town of Vaihingen an der Enz in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a German railway station categories, category 3 station. It is one of a few passenger stations in German that are designed to allow Intercity-Express (ICE) trains to pass at 250 km/h. The ICE through tracks do not have platforms. Location The station is located about 2.5 kilometers from the centre of Vaihingen, between the town and the suburb of KleinglattbachHorst J. Obermayer: ''Neue Fahrwege für den InterCityExpress''. In: Herrmann Merker (Hrsg.): ''ICE – InterCityExpress am Start''. Hermann Merker Verlag, Fürstenfeldbruck 1991, , p. 57–69. at about 250 metres above sea level. The station lies on the Mannheim–Stuttgart high-speed railway, Mannheim–Stuttgart high-speed line (near the 78 km mark from Mannheim) and on the Württemberg Weste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mühlacker Station
Mühlacker station is in the town of Mühlacker in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is at the junction of the Karlsruhe–Mühlacker line and the Western Railway. With its five platform tracks, it is the largest station in Enz district. It is served by InterCity, regional and Karlsruhe Stadtbahn services. History In the 1840s the Württemberg government decided to build a rail link to the Rhine Valley Railway to connect to Mannheim and the nearby industry. Baden, however, was more interested in connecting Pforzheim to its rail network. After years of negotiations between the Kingdom of Württemberg and the Grand Duchy of Baden, an agreement was reached on the route of the Western Railway on 4 December 1850. The line branched from the Northern Railway in Bietigheim, running for 23 km until it reached a point between Weilern Eckenweiher Hof and Mühlacker. A station was built there, which would later be the end of a line from Pforzheim. Both settlements were to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pforzheim Hauptbahnhof
Pforzheim Hauptbahnhof is the main station in the city of Pforzheim in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. History The first Pforzheim station was opened on the 3 July 1861 on the Karlsruhe–Mühlacker railway by the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway The Grand Duchy of Baden was an independent state in what is now southwestern Germany until the creation of the German Empire in 1871. It had its own state-owned railway company, the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railways (''Großherzoglich Badische ... (''Großherzoglich Badische Staatseisenbahnen''). With the opening of the Enz Valley Railway (''Enztalbahn'') to Bad Wildbad, Wildbad (11 June 1868) and the Nagold Valley Railway (''Nagoldtalbahn'') to Horb am Neckar, Horb (1 June 1874), Pforzheim developed into an interchange station with considerable traffic. Both lines were operated by the Royal Württemberg State Railways (''Königlich Württembergischen Staats-Eisenbahnen'') and they received their own platform tracks to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
München Hauptbahnhof
München Hauptbahnhof or Munich Central Station is the main railway station in the city of Munich, Germany. It is one of the three stations with long-distance services in Munich, the others being Munich East station (''München Ost'') and Munich-Pasing station (''München-Pasing''). München Hauptbahnhof sees about 450,000 passengers a day, which puts it on par with other large stations in Germany, such as Hamburg Hauptbahnhof and Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 1 station, one of 21 in Germany and two in Munich, the other being ''München Ost''. The mainline station is a terminal station with 32 platforms. The subterranean S-Bahn with 2 platforms and U-Bahn stations with 6 platforms are through stations. The first Munich station was built about to the west in 1839. A station at the current site was opened in 1849 and it has been rebuilt numerous times, including to replace the main station building, which was badly damaged during W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augsburg Hauptbahnhof
Augsburg Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in the Bavarian city of Augsburg, situated in southern Germany. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station and has 12 platform tracks. The station has one of the oldest still existing station halls in Germany, which was built from 1843 to 1846 after plans by architect Eduard Rüber. It was reconstructed in 1869 according to Friedrich Bürklein's plans. The station today serves as the central railway hub for the Augsburg metropolitan area and Bavarian Swabia. It is currently being modernised and an underground tram station is being built under it. Structure The first Augsburg station was opened in 1840 by the Munich-Augsburg Railway Company (''München-Augsburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'') near the ''Rotes Tor'' (Red Gate). Its historic hall served in 1880 as a military riding school and since 1920 it has been part of the main workshop of the traffic branch of ''Stadtwerke Augsburg'' (Augsburg's municipal utilit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulm Hauptbahnhof
Ulm Hauptbahnhof is the main station in the city of Ulm, which lies on the Danube, on the border of the German states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria in the Danube-Iller region (''Region Donau-Iller''). Ulm Hauptbahnhof has twelve platforms, of which five are terminating platforms, and forms a major railway junction. Other stations in the city are Ulm-Söflingen to the west and Ulm Ost (east) to the east and Ulm-Donautal (Danube valley) in the industrial area. The Ulm marshalling yard is located to the west of the city. Neu-Ulm (New Ulm), which lies across the Danube in Bavaria, has the stations of Neu-Ulm, Finningerstraße and Gerlenhofen. Ulm is located on the railway line from Stuttgart to Munich, over which Intercity-Express trains operate, and part of the Magistrale for Europe (trunk line) from Paris to Budapest. European cities such as Amsterdam, Budapest, Paris and Linz can be reached without transfers. Every day, about 29,000 passengers use the station. It is used dail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof
Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof (; en, Stuttgart central station) is the primary railway station in the city of Stuttgart, the state capital of Baden-Württemberg, in southwestern Germany. It is the largest regional and long-distance railway station in Stuttgart, the main node of the Stuttgart S-Bahn network, and, together with the station at Charlottenplatz, it is the main node of the Stuttgart Stadtbahn. Located at the northeastern end of the ''Königstraße'', the main pedestrian zone of the city centre, the main line station is a terminus, whilst the subterranean S-Bahn and Stadtbahn stations are through-stations. The station is well known for its 12-storey tower with a large, rotating and illuminated Mercedes-Benz star insignia on top; the tower and station building are city landmarks. Plans for the controversial Stuttgart 21 project to convert the main line terminus station into an underground through station include the demolition of the side wings of the building, together with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stralsund Hauptbahnhof
Stralsund Hauptbahnhof is the main station in Western Pomerania and the main station for railway lines running to Hamburg, Bergen auf Rügen and Berlin in the German Hanseatic city of Stralsund. It is owned and operated by Deutsche Bahn. Station Construction of the present-day station near the centre of the city started on 9 November 1903 and it was inaugurated on 28 March 1905. Its predecessor was a wooden building constructed in 1863 in the suburb of ''Tribseer Vorstadt''. The construction of this station and the railway to Stralsund had been promoted by the merchants and entrepreneurs of Stralsund since 1844. They joined together in the same year as the "Society for the attainment of a railway from Berlin via Neu-Strelitz to Stralsund" (german: Verein zur Erlangung einer Eisenbahn von Berlin über Neu-Strelitz nach Stralsund) and set out its proposals in a memorandum. They also put this matter before the competent authorities in Berlin. The association developed a concept for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostock Hauptbahnhof
Rostock Hauptbahnhof, also Rostock Central Station (from 1896 until the turn of the 20th century called ''Rostock Central-Bahnhof''), is the main railway station in the German city of Rostock. It is situated well to the south of the city centre, to which it is linked by tram. The station was opened in 1886 by the ''Deutsch-Nordischer Lloyd'', operating a combined railway/ferry line to Nykøbing Falster in Denmark. The station was expanded in 1913 and 1922, but was heavily damaged in World War II. The importance of the traditional route to Hamburg and Copenhagen diminished after the post-World War II division of Germany, with long-distance services instead focusing on cities within the German Democratic Republic. Electrification reached the station in 1985. After German reunification, the station was extensively modernised. History Today's station was opened in 1886 by the ''Deutsch-Nordische-Lloyd'' (German-Nordic-Lloyd) Railway Company as the ''Lloyd-Bahnhof'' (“station of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
