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Altona–Blankenese Railway
The Altona–Blankenese railway is a railway line to the west of Hamburg. It starts at the Hamburg-Altona station, Altona station and runs through Othmarschen station, Othmarschen to Blankenese station. This section of line was opened in 1867. 16 years later the line was extended to Wedel station, Wedel. It is now used by the S1 line of the Hamburg S-Bahn and was part of the first electrified suburban railway in Germany. Route The line begins at Altona station, where there is a four-track underground S-Bahn station, which has an attached reversing facility. The Hamburg City S-Bahn, City S-Bahn line runs up a steep ramp (with a maximum gradient of 4.0%) to the surface and shortly later the Altona–Blankenese line branches off the Hamburg-Altona–Kiel railway, line to Pinneberg and turns west. It passes through the stations of Bahrenfeld station, Bahrenfeld, Othmarschen station, Othmarschen, Klein Flottbek station, Klein Flottbek and Hochkamp station, Hochkamp and then runs into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. The Hamburg Metropolitan Region has a population of over 5.1 million and is the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, eighth-largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. At the southern tip of the Jutland Peninsula, Hamburg stands on the branching River Elbe at the head of a estuary to the North Sea, on the mouth of the Alster and Bille (Elbe), Bille. Hamburg is one of Germany's three city-states alongside Berlin and Bremen (state), Bremen, and is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south. The Port of Hamburg is Germany's largest and Europe's List of busiest ports in Europe, third-largest, after Port of Rotterdam, Rotterda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
