| Trier Hauptbahnhof | |
|---|---|
| Station building and forecourt. | |
| Operations | |
| Category | 3 |
| Type | Crossing station |
| Platforms in use | 4 (tracks 10-13, "North and "South") |
| Daily trains | ca. 170 |
| DS100 code | STR |
| Station code | 6264 |
| Construction and location | |
| Opened | 1878 |
| Location | Trier |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Home page | www.bahnhof.de |
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| List of railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
Trier Central Station (German: Trier Hauptbahnhof) is a railway station for the city of Trier, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is a through station located about 500 metres (550 yd) east of the inner city and the Porta Nigra.
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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.[1][2]
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.
The forecourt in front of the main building offers short-term parking and parking for motorcycles. Further parking can be found at the western end of the building and in the parking garage to the south of the Ostalleencenter.
At Trier Hbf, more than 170 trains stop daily. The trains calling at Trier include ICE, IC, RE and RB services.
One can arrive in Trier from:
Both of these last two railways merge with the Saar Railway in Konz.
From Trier, IC trains operate every two hours via Koblenz, Andernach, Bonn, Köln, Düsseldorf, Oberhausen, Münster (Westf) and Rheine to Emden/Norddeich Mole, and every two hours from Emden/Norddeich-Mole on the same itinerary in reverse, then onwards to Luxembourg.
Since the timetable change for 2005, Trier has had an ICE connection with Berlin, by an ICE train that starts its journey at the Trier Hauptbahnhof. That ICE train operates via Koblenz, Andernach, Bonn (the Linke Rheinstrecke), Köln, Wuppertal, Hamm and Hannover.
| Line | Train route | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| ICE 10 | Berlin Ostbf – Berlin – Hannover – Bielefeld – Hamm (Westf) – Hagen – Wuppertal – Köln – Bonn – Koblenz – Trier | One train pair daily |
| IC/EC 35 | Norddeich Mole – Emden – Rheine – Münster (Westf) – Gelsenkirchen – Oberhausen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Köln – Bonn – Koblenz – Trier – Luxembourg | Every two hours |
| Line | Description | Train route | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| RE 1 | Mosel-Saar-Express | Koblenz – Wittlich – Trier – Saarlouis – Völklingen – Saarbrücken | Every two hours |
| RE 7 | Mosel-Pfalz-Express | Trier – Saarlouis – Völklingen – Saarbrücken – St. Ingbert – Homburg (Saar) – Kaiserslautern – Neustadt (Weinstr) – Ludwigshafen (Rhein) – Mannheim | Individual trains |
| RE 11 | Saartal-Express | Trier – Merzig (Saar) – Saarlouis – Völklingen – Saarbrücken | Individual trains |
| RE 12 | Eifel-Mosel-Express | Köln Messe/Deutz – Köln Hbf – Erftstadt – Euskirchen – Gerolstein – Bitburg-Erdorf – Trier | Every two hours |
| RE 14 | DeLux-Express | Luxembourg – Wasserbillig – Trier – (Schweich) | Approx hourly |
| RB 71 | Saartal-Bahn | Trier – Konz – Merzig (Saar) – Saarlouis – Völklingen – Saarbrücken – St. Ingbert – Homburg (Saar) | Hourly |
| RB 81 | Moseltal-Bahn | Koblenz – Cochem (Mosel) – Wittlich – Trier | Hourly |
| RB 82 | Elbling-Express | Wittlich – Trier – Konz Mitte – Wellen (Mosel) – Perl | Hourly |
| RB 83 | Eifel-Bahn | Gerolstein – Bitburg-Erdorf – Trier | Hourly |
In the evenings and on weekends, Trier Hbf is the focal point of Trier's bus traffic. Each district of Trier can be reached from there without any need to change buses.
This article is based upon a translation of the German language version as at December 2010.