Trier Hauptbahnhof
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Trier Hauptbahnhof
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| Through station | |
Station building and forecourt.
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| Location |
Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany |
| Coordinates | 49°45′25″N 06°39′07″E / 49.75694°N 6.65194°ECoordinates: 49°45′25″N 06°39′07″E / 49.75694°N 6.65194°E |
| Line(s) | |
| Platforms | 4 (tracks 10-13, "North and "South") |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 6264 |
| DS100 code | STR |
| Category | 3 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1878 |
Trier Hauptbahnhof is a railway station for the city of Trier, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is a through station, about 500 metres (550 yd) east of the inner city and the Porta Nigra.
The station was opened in 1878 together with the rest of the Moselle line, which formed part of the Kanonenbahn (English: Cannons Railway) (Berlin–Metz).
Earlier, upon the opening of the Saar route in 1860, Trier had acquired a station on the left bank of the Moselle, the present day Trier-West station, which, in 1871, had also been linked with Cologne via the Eifel Railway. However, in view of its convenient location close to Trier's city centre, the present day Hauptbahnhof soon became the city's most important station.
The main entrance of the station leads directly to the station lobby. In the southwestern part of the lobby, there are a FotoFix automat and two pay phones; in the southern half (with its own access) are luggage lockers, ticket machines, the toilet and the DB travel centre. In the north-west wing is a candy kiosk and in the eastern half an ATM, a bakery / café and a newsagent.
In 2005, renovation work began in the station area with the objective of adapting it to the standard of other ICE-train stations.
The station forecourt is overwhelmingly dominated by retail outlets. At the southern end, it is bordered by the Alleencenter shopping centre. An expert workshop organised by the city of Trier has put forward comprehensive plans for the redevelopment of the station forecourt, and in particular for the reorganisation of the parking and traffic control systems. Under these plans, there would be a generally clearly visible station building, with a new bus terminal, and either an overpass or underpass to Trier-Gartenfeld.
Trief Hbf is connected to its west, via the Bahnhofstrasse with the Alleenring, which gathers together all the traffic from the Ost- and Theodor-Heuss-Allee, Christoph- und Balduinstraße, as well as the streets in the Reichsabtei.
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