Hamburg-Altona station
General information | ||
---|---|---|
Location | Scheel-Plessen-Str. 17 22765 Hamburg[1] Germany | |
Coordinates | 53°33′07″N 09°56′06″E / 53.55194°N 9.93500°E | |
Line(s) |
| |
Platforms | 6 island | |
Tracks | 12 | |
Other information | ||
Station code | 2517 DS100 code
| |
IBNR | 8002553 | |
Category | 1[2] | |
Fare zone | HVV: A/101[3] | |
Website | www.bahnhof.de | |
History | ||
Opened | 18 September 1844 | |
Rebuilt | 1898 relocated northwards by 700 m 1950 1979 | |
Electrified | 29 January 1908 , 6.3 kV AC system (overhead; turned off in 1955)[4] 15 July 1940 , 1.2 kV DC system (3rd rail)[4] 4 April 1965 , 15 kV AC system (overhead)[4] | |
Previous names | 1844-1938 Altona Hauptbahnhof | |
Location | ||
Hamburg-Altona (or simply Altona) is a
A main line
History
The original Altona station was built by the Altona-Kiel Railway Company at the end of the line from Kiel, some 300 metres south of the current station. It opened in 1844, at which time Altona was an independent city within the Duchy of Holstein (the old station is currently used as the present-day Altona borough's town hall).
In 1866 the
In 1898 Altona Hauptbahnhof (Altona main station) was opened at the current location. It was badly damaged during
Future
In September 2009 the Hamburger Morgenpost and Die Welt revealed that Deutsche Bahn AG plans to close the long distance train station at Altona and to build a new station in the area of Diebsteich station. According to Die Welt, the city government had preliminary studies for the area to build flats and a park. Initially it was expected that the new station would open in 2016.[6][7] As a result of frequent protests, that date has been delayed until 2027.[citation needed]
Station layout
Regional and long-distance trains start and terminate at the street-level bay platforms within the terminal. There are two underground
Station services
Trains
Long distance
Altona is the terminus/starting point for ICE lines 18, 25 and 28 to Munich, line 22 to Stuttgart, line 26 to Karlsruhe and line 20 to Basel. All ICE services are run by DB Fernverkehr.
Line | Route | Interval | |
---|---|---|---|
ICE 11 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Berlin – Leipzig – Erfurt – Frankfurt – Mannheim – Stuttgart – Augsburg – Munich | Some trains | |
ICE 18 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Berlin – Halle – Erfurt – Nuremberg – Ingolstadt – Munich | Every two hours | |
ICE 20 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Chur )
| ||
ICE 24 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Hannover – Kassel – Würzburg – Augsburg – Munich – | Schwarzach-St. Veit | Some trains |
Innsbruck | |||
ICE 25 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Hannover – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Ingolstadt – Munich | Hourly | |
ICE 26 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Gießen – Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Heidelberg – Karlsruhe
|
Every two hours | |
EC 27 | ( | ||
ICE 28 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Berlin – Leipzig – | Erfurt – Nuremberg – Munich | |
Jena | One train pair | ||
ICE 29 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Berlin – Halle – Erfurt – Nuremberg – Ingolstadt – Munich | 5 train pairs | |
ICE 39 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Bremen – Münster – Essen – Düsseldorf – Cologne | Some trains | |
ICE 42 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Bremen – Münster – Dortmund – Essen – Düsseldorf – – Augsburg – Munich | One train pair | |
ICE 43 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Bremen – Münster – Dortmund – Essen – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Siegburg/Bonn – Basel
|
Some trains | |
EC 43 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Bremen – Münster – Dortmund – Essen – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Bonn – Mainz – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Freiburg – Basel – Zürich or Interlaken Ost | Two train pairs | |
ICE 91 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Hannover – Göttingen – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Wien Meidling – Vienna
|
One train pair |
Regional trains
Regional services available from Altona include number RE 6/60 to Westerland (Sylt) and RB 71 to Itzehoe and Wrist.
S-Bahn (Rapid transit)
The S1 line trains on the
Facilities
Several shops are located in the station building, along with emergency and information telephones, ticket machines, toilets, lockboxes and personnel.[1]
Gallery
-
The first station with wings built in 1890, as seen from the south]
-
Bahnhof Altona (railway station) in 1971. Buses, trams, trains and S-Bahn trains all met here.
-
Present-day platforms and tracks
See also
References
- ^ a b Staff, DB-Konzern - Hamburg-Altona (in German), Deutsche Bahn AG, retrieved 24 January 2008
- ^ a b c "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ "Tarifplan" (PDF). Hamburger Verkehrsverbund. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- ^ a b c Cf. "Streckenelektrifizierungen", on: Königlich preußische Eisenbahndirection zu Altona, retrieved on 19 January 2018.
- ^ a b Staff (14 December 2008), Rapid Transit/Regional Rail (Network plan, pdf) (PDF), Hamburger Verkehrsverbund, archived from the original (PDF) on 17 January 2009, retrieved 24 January 2009
- ^ Thomas Hirschbiegel, Jessica Kröll (3 September 2009). "Wohnungsbau statt Sackbahnhof" [Flats building instead of terminal] (in German). Hamburger Morgenpost. Archived from the original on 10 September 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2009.
- ^ Olaf Dittmann (26 September 2009). "Deutsche Bahn legt sich fest: Fernbahnhof Altona wird bis 2016 verlegt" [German Rail predefined: Long distance station Altona transferred until 2016]. Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 9 October 2009.
External links
- DB station information (in German)
- Picture of the Hamburg-Altona station (in German)
- Network plan HVV (PDF, 560 KiB)