Nordwestring station is a

Nuremberg U-Bahn The Nuremberg U-Bahn is a rapid transit system run by ''Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg'' (VAG; Nuremberg Transport Corporation), which itself is a member of the ''Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg'' (VGN; Greater Nuremberg Transport Netw ...

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. It is the northern terminus of the U3 line and was opened on 22 May 2017.

Location

The station is located on the border of the Nuremberg districts ''Bielingplatz'' and ''Wetzendorf'' and extends underground in east-west orientation across the ''Nordwestring'' (part of B4R) between ''Bielefelder Straße'' and ''Heimerichstraße''. The building is located in a simple depth (7.70 m) below the earth's surface. At each platform end there is an

elevator An elevator or lift is a wire rope, cable-assisted, hydraulic cylinder-assisted, or roller-track assisted machine that vertically transports people or freight between floors, levels, or deck (building), decks of a building, watercraft, ...

, as well as

stairs Stairs are a structure designed to bridge a large vertical distance between lower and higher levels by dividing it into smaller vertical distances. This is achieved as a diagonal series of horizontal platforms called steps which enable passage ...

and

escalators An escalator is a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building or structure. It consists of a motor-driven chain of individually linked steps on a track which cycle on a pair of tracks which keep the step tread horizo ...

, which are a direct link to the surface. Behind the underground station, under ''Bielefelder Straße'', there is a 170 m long,

double-track A double-track railway usually involves running one track in each direction, compared to a single-track railway where trains in both directions share the same track. Overview In the earliest days of railways in the United Kingdom, most li ...

tunnel A tunnel is an underground passageway, dug through surrounding soil, earth or rock, and enclosed except for the entrance and exit, commonly at each end. A pipeline is not a tunnel, though some recent tunnels have used immersed tube cons ...

, which is used as a parking or turning facility.''Tunnelstrecke Wendeanlage Nordwestring''
Info-Broschüre Nr. 18 des städtischen U-Bahnbauamts, Seite 27

Gallery

NordwestringMai2017.jpg, Nordwestring in May 2017 NordwestringZweiterAufgang.jpg, entrance at Nordwestring BahnsteigNordwestring.jpg, platform at Nordwestring

References

Nuremberg U-Bahn stations Railway stations in Germany opened in 2017 {{Nuremberg-U-Bahn-stub