Nürnberg-Ostring station is a Nuremberg S-Bahn

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

on the

Nuremberg–Schwandorf railway The Nuremberg–Schwandorf railway is a 93.7 km long railway from Nuremberg, running along the Pegnitz river, to Hersbruck and continuing via Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg and Amberg to Schwandorf in the German state of Bavaria. It runs ...

at the intersection with the B 4

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("B 4 R", this section named Cheruskerstraße) in the Tullnau neighbourhood of

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

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. The station has a long and high

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elevated above the roadway, accessed by stairs on either side. It is served by the S1 line and has stops for city bus lines 43 and 65 on the north of the station on either side of the B 4 R; there is also a stop for tram line 5 at the intersection of the B 4 R and Ostendstraße north of the station. Nürnberg–Ostring opened on 26 September 1987 with the start of the first Nuremberg S-Bahn service by the Deutsche Bundesbahn. The office complex, the headquarters of the Nürnberger Versicherung insurance company, is adjacent to the station. The Business Tower also gives the name to the

Straßenbahn Nürnberg The Nuremberg tramway network (german: Straßenbahnnetz Nürnberg) is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Nuremberg, a city in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany. The system reached the neighboring city of Fürt ...

stop some away.

References

* Ostring Ostring Railway stations in Germany opened in 1987 {{Germany-metro-stub