- Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
Hbf intro|Karlsruhe is the central
railway station in the German city ofKarlsruhe . The station is classified as one of the major Category 1 stations in Germany, due to its function as a hub connecting several railway lines with each other.History
The first station was built about 500 metres south of the Karlsruhe market square, together with the
Mannheim toBasel line. The station had two platforms and opened in 1843. The station at first was built using 1600 mm gauge tracks, but soon the gauge was changed to the more common 1435 mm. Lines were added toMaxau ,Pforzheim ,Heilbronn andLeopoldshafen after the conversion.As the lines were all laid down on street level, and traffic increased over the years, the old station was soon found impractical. A new station was therefore erected approximately one kilometre south of the old station, and opened in October 1913.The station saw little damage inWorld War II and was extensively modernised in the early 1990s when theKarlsruhe model tram-train system was implemented. Today, it sees about 150 long-distance passenger trains per day.External links
*de icon [http://www.bahnhof.de/site/bahnhoefe/de/sued/karlsruhe__hbf/karlsruhe__hbf.html DB station information]
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