Nordwestring station is a Nuremberg U-Bahn

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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, 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

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