Fürth (Bayern) Hauptbahnhof is a railway hub for the city of

Fürth Fürth (; East Franconian German, East Franconian: ; ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in northern Bavaria, Germany, in the administrative division (''Regierungsbezirk'') of Middle Franconia. It is the Franconia#Towns and cities, s ...

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. The station is mainly frequented by regional services. It also has a connection to the

Nuremberg U-Bahn The Nuremberg U-Bahn is a rapid transit system in Nuremberg and Fürth, Bavaria. It is operated by ''Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg'' (VAG; Nuremberg Transport Corporation), which itself is a member of the ''Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nür ...

(underground) system and the

Nuremberg S-Bahn The Nuremberg S-Bahn () is an S-Bahn network covering the region of Nuremberg, Fürth and Erlangen which started operations in 1987 and is now integrated into the Greater Nuremberg Transport Association (Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg). Th ...

(commuter) network.

Long-distance services

Until the timetable change in 2003, the station was a stop for

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(IC) trains that linked

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via Fürth to Würzburg Hauptbahnhof and

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. Today the only long-distance train calling at Fürth Hauptbahnhof is the

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''Pluto'' which runs from

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Regional services

Regional services heading eastwards run through the neighbouring city of Nuremberg and onwards towards Neumarkt (Oberpfalz)– Regensburg Hauptbahnhof–Munich Hauptbahnhof or

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–Munich Hauptbahnhof. Around a kilometre to the west of the station the route divides and runs in three different directions. One line, the

Nuremberg–Bamberg railway The Nuremberg-Bamberg line is a rail transport in Germany, German railway connecting the Bavarian city of Nuremberg with Bamberg via Fürth, Erlangen, Forchheim. It is part of the northern section of the Ludwig South-North Railway. It runs along t ...

(timetable route (KBS) 820), branches off to the north, towards the city of

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. A second line heads west on the Nuremberg–Würzburg line (KBS 805), from which the '' Zenngrundbahn'' (KBS 891.1) to Markt Erlbach branches off at Siegelsdorf; and a third railway, the '' Rangaubahn'' (KBS 808), swings towards the southwest and heads for the town of

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. Services on the Cadolzburg route run every 30 minutes; the line to Markt Erlbach has an hourly service.

Links to urban transport services

Since 7 December 1985, the 150th anniversary of the German railways, Fürth Hauptbahnhof has been joined to the U1 line of the

network. At the beginning of 2006, construction work started on a project to connect Fürth to the

as well; the S-Bahn line opened in Fürth in 2010. The station forecourt is one of the most important bus service hubs for the area. A total of seven out of the eleven bus lines operated by '' Stadtbus Fürth'', the city bus company, begin or stop at Fürth Hauptbahnhof, which is why an electronic timetable display system has been installed here. In addition there is car parking for private cars as well as taxi stands on the station forecourt. File:440 811-8 in Fürth, 2014.JPG, alt=A DBAG Class 440 train on a regional service to Nürnberg Hbf, A

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train on a regional service to Nürnberg Hbf Image:Fuerth-Hauptbahnhof U 1.JPG, U-Bahn station at Fürth Hauptbahnhof

History

The first station at Fürth was a good hundred metres further north, on Fürth's ''Freiheit'' square. This so-called ''Ludwig's station'' emerged as the Fürth end of the Bavarian Ludwigsbahn opened on 7 December 1835 between Nuremberg and Fürth, and which was one of the first railway lines in Germany. In 1922 the ''Ludwigsbahn'' was closed and the tracks used by the Nuremüberg-Fürth tramway until 1981; its course is however still clearly visible on the present-day Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse. The old station was knocked down in 1938 when the

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needed a parade ground on the ''Schlageterplatz'', known today as the ''Fürther Freiheit''. With the building of the link between Fürth and Rottendorf and the routing of the Ludwig South-North Railway over the ''Fürther Bogen'' a new station building was needed. The task was given to the architect, Eduard Rüber. In 1863/1864 a rectangular building with a wide, central Risalit appeared on the northern side of the new railway line at ''Bahnhofsplatz'' 9. Along the long sides of the two-storey station building were a number of coupled, double windows. The tracks were covered with cast iron roofing, some of which remain today. Today this through station has nine tracks (one of which is a

passing loop A passing loop (UK usage) or passing siding (North America) (also called a crossing loop, crossing place, refuge loop or, colloquially, a hole) is a place on a single line railway or tramway, often located at or near a station, where trains o ...

for goods trains) and seven platforms with lengths between 348 and 421 metres. In the 1970s the ''Bahnhofs-Center'' appeared immediately next to the station building at the point where ''Gebhardtstrasse'' enters the station square. The underpass beneath the tracks was extended as far as ''Karolinenstrasse '' during the building of the U-Bahn and offers a direct connexion from the south of Fürth to the city centre using the railway and U-Bahn. As part of the expansion of the section of line between Nuremberg and Fürth an electronic

signal box A signal is both the process and the result of transmission of data over some media accomplished by embedding some variation. Signals are important in multiple subject fields including signal processing, information theory and biology. In ...

was built at Hauptbahnhof Fürth. When it is completely ready in 2011 it will be able to control, not just the station, but the line to Nuremberg with its total of 87

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s and 94

axle counter An axle counter is a system used in railway signalling to detect the clear or occupied status of a specified section of track. The system generally consists of a wheel sensor (one for each end of the section) and an evaluation unit for counting ...

Operational usage

References

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