Augsburg Hauptbahnhof

Augsburg Hauptbahnhof
Junction station
The front of the station building
Location	Augsburg, Bavaria Germany
Coordinates
Line(s)	Augsburg–Lindau (KBS 971) Augsburg–Munich (KBS 980) Augsburg–Ulm (KBS 980) Augsburg–Nuremberg (KBS 982) Paar Valley Railway (KBS 983)
Platforms	12
Construction
Architect	Eduard Rüber Friedrich Bürklein (1869 reconstruction)
Architectural style	Neoclassical
Other information
Station code	220
DS100 code	MA
Category	2
Website	www.bahnhof.de stationsdatenbank.de
History
Opened	1 July 1846 (1846-07-01)
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	< 50,000 daily

Augsburg Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in the Bavarian city of Augsburg, situated in southern Germany. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station and has 12 platform tracks.

The station has one of the oldest still existing station halls in Germany, which was built from 1843 to 1846 after plans by architect Eduard Rüber. It was reconstructed in 1869 according to Friedrich Bürklein's plans. The station today serves as the central railway hub for the Augsburg metropolitan area and Bavarian Swabia. It is currently being modernised and an underground tram station is being built under it.

Structure

The first Augsburg station was opened in 1840 by the Munich-Augsburg Railway Company (München-Augsburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) near the Rotes Tor (Red Gate). Its historic hall served in 1880 as a military riding school and since 1920 it has been part of the main workshop of the traffic branch of Stadtwerke Augsburg (Augsburg’s municipal utility). After the nationalisation of the line in 1846, the current station was built. Augsburg Hauptbahnhof is a through station with four central platforms (which each have two faces and are not accessible for the disabled), nine through tracks and six bay platform tracks (only three of which are in use). Platform 1 is located next to the station building and has one side.

Station building

The station building has three parts. The central block has a station hall with electronic displays, ticket machines, an information booth and waiting facilities. In one wing is the customer centre of Deutsche Bahn, including a ticket office. In the other wing there is a dining and shopping area and the station library.

The last major renovation and modernisation of the building was in 1983/84. In recent years, the food court in particular has been upgraded (completed in 2007) and a new digital display board has been installed in the main hall. Recently, the south wing was renovated, including the waiting area for travellers, and the hospitality facilities have continued to grow.

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The station from the south

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The station from the north

Station environment

Directly in front of the building there is a large forecourt with a fountain, a parking lot, including a taxi rank, and a bus station for local buses. The square is flanked on both sides by shopping centres: on the one hand there is the Fuggerstadt-Center, on the other, the Bohus-Center and the InterCityHotel.

West of the passenger station is the freight yard and the former marshalling yard, which is now hardly used. To the south, the former "internal loading area" is full of old and mostly vacant buildings, which will be demolished in the next few years. Also in the southern part of the station building is the original central signalling centre inaugurated in May 1972 and the Federal Police station.

Operations

Long-distance services

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Station sign

Augsburg station forms the end of one of the busiest long-distance lines in Germany, the Munich–Augsburg high speed line. Work on upgrading the line as a four-track high-speed line was completed in December 2011. Besides Intercity, EuroCity and CityNightLine services, Intercity-Express (ICE ) trains run from Munich towards Stuttgart and Nuremberg.

With the opening of the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt–Munich high-speed line in June 2006 and its full integration into the German ICE network at the timetable change in December 2006, some of the ICE services—30 of 120 long-distance services then stopping in Augsburg—were transferred from Augsburg to Ingolstadt. As a replacement for some of the long-distance trains, the Allgäu-Franken-Express was created with four daily pairs of trains and an ICE-like journey time between Nuremberg and Augsburg.

In 2006, about 10,000 passengers per day were recorded on long-distance services in Augsburg. With 90 long-distance services stopping each day, it is the third most important station in Bavaria in terms of long-distance services.

The following long-distance services stop in Augsburg:

Line	Route			Frequency
ICE 11	Berlin Ostbf – Berlin Hbf – Braunschweig – Hildesheim – Göttingen – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Fulda – Frankfurt Hbf – Mannheim – Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich			Every 2 hours
ICE 25	Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg Hbf –	–Hannover – Göttingen – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Fulda – Würzburg – (Nuremberg –) Augsburg – Munich		Every 2 hours
	(Oldenburg –) Bremen –
ICE 28	(Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg Hbf –) Berlin – Leipzig – Jena Paradies – Nuremberg – Augsburg – Munich			Every 2 hours
ICE 42	(Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg Hbf – Bremen – Münster –) Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim – Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich			Every 2 hours
ICE 83	Munich – Augsburg – Ulm – Stuttgart – Karlsruhe – Strasbourg – Paris Est			One train pair
RJ 90	Budapest Keleti pu – Vienna West – Salzburg – Munich – Augsburg – Ulm – Stuttgart – Mannheim – Frankfurt Flughafen – Frankfurt Hbf (– Wiesbaden)			One train pair twice weekly
IC 26	Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg Hbf – Hannover – Göttingen – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Fulda – Würzburg – Augsburg –		Munich Hbf	One train pair
			Munich East – Berchtesgaden	One train pair
			Oberstdorf
IC 28	Berlin – Leipzig – Nuremberg – Augsburg – Munich			Two train pairs
EC/IC 32	Dortmund / Münster – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Köln – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich – Salzburg – Klagenfurt			One train pair
IC 60	(Strasbourg –) Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich (– Salzburg)			Every 2 hours
EC 62	Frankfurt Hbf – Heidelberg –	Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich – Salzburg (– Klagenfurt / Graz / Linz)		Every 2 hours
	Saarbrücken – Mannheim –
CNL	Pollux / Cassiopeia: Amsterdam – Arnhem – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Stuttgart – / Paris Est – Metz – Saarbrücken – Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich (– Kufstein – Innsbruck)			One train pair
CNL	Capella / Pyxis: Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg Hbf – Bremen – Hannover – Augsburg – / Berlin-Lichtenberg – Berlin Hbf – Magdeburg – Braunschweig – Hildesheim – Augsburg – Munich			One train pair

Preceding station		Deutsche Bahn		Following station
Ulm Hbf towards Berlin Ost		ICE 11		München-Pasing towards Munich Hbf
Ulm Hbf towards Paris Est		ICE/TGV 83		Munich Hbf Terminus
Günzburg toward Frankfurt Hbf		Railjet		München-Pasing toward Budapest Keleti
Günzburg towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf		IC/EC 62		Munich Hbf towards Salzburg Hbf
Günzburg towards Saarbrücken Hbf

In the summer of 1939 timetable, 87 scheduled long-distance services each day stopped in the station.

Regional services

Regional-Express or Regionalbahn services operate from Augsburg to Bad Wörishofen, Donauwörth, Füssen, Hergatz, Ingolstadt, Landsberg, Lindau, Munich, Nuremberg, Oberstdorf, Schongau, Treuchtlingen, Ulm and Weilheim. Especially on the line to Munich there are regularly crowded trains, so double-decker trains, which could carry nearly 1,000 passengers, were used until the timetable change on 13 December 2009. Since then class 440 (Alstom Coradia Continental) EMUs of the so-called Fugger-Express operate S-Bahn-density regional services between Augsburg and Munich. Numerous technical glitches on the new rolling stock delayed the start of the original services for a whole year.

Train class	AVV line	Route	Frequency
RE	R1 / R6 / R4	Fugger-Express: Munich – Augsburg – Ulm / (Treuchtlingen)	Hourly
RE / RB	R1 / R6 / R4	Fugger-Express: Munich – Augsburg – Dinkelscherben / Donauwörth	Hourly
RE	R4	Augsburg – Donauwörth – Treuchtlingen – Nuremberg	Every 2 hours
RE		Allgäu-Franken-Express: Nuremberg – Augsburg – Buchloe – Kempten (Allgäu) – Immenstadt – Lindau / Oberstdorf	Every 2 hours
RE		Augsburg – Buchloe – Kempten (Allgäu) – Immenstadt – Lindau / Oberstdorf
RE	R7	Augsburg – Buchloe	Every 2 hours
RE	R7	Kneipp-Lechfeld-Bahn: Augsburg – Buchloe – Türkheim (Bay) (Flügelung) – Bad Wörishofen / – Mindelheim – Memmingen	Every 2 hours
RB	R4	Augsburg – Meitingen (– Donauwörth)	Hourly
RB	R6	Augsburg – Gessertshausen (– Dinkelscherben)	Individual services in the peak
RB	R7	Augsburg – Buchloe – Kaufbeuren – Marktoberdorf – Füssen	Every 2 hours
RB	R7	Augsburg – Bobingen – Buchloe (– Kaufbeuren – Marktoberdorf)	Every 2 hours
RB	R7	Augsburg – Bobingen (– Schwabmünchen – Buchloe)	Hourly
RB	R8	Kneipp-Lechfeld-Bahn: Augsburg – Bobingen – Kaufering – Landsberg (Lech)	Hourly
BRB	R11	Augsburg-Oberhausen – Augsburg – Geltendorf – Weilheim – Schongau	Hourly
BRB	R11	(Augsburg-Oberhausen –) Augsburg – Mering (– Geltendorf)	Individual services
BRB	R2	Augsburg – Friedberg – Aichach (– Ingolstadt)	Every 30 minutes
BRB	R2	Augsburg – Friedberg	Every 30 minutes

Buses and trams

Augsburg station serves as one of the central hubs of Augsburg, so many lines of the Augsburger Verkehrsverbunde (Augsburg Transport Association) start and end here. These can be accessed in two places. The Hauptbahnhof stop is in the nearby Halderstraße and is served by the following tram and bus lines:

• Tram line 3: towards Stadtbergen, Pfersee or Königsplatz, University and Haunstetten Inninger Strasse
• Tram line 4: towards Königsplatz, Oberhausen and Augsburg Nord
• Tram line 6: towards Königsplatz, Hochzoll and Friedberg West
• Bus route 22 and 23: towards Firnhaberau
• Bus route 32: towards Klinikum BKH or Königsplatz and Zoo/ Botanical Garden
• Bus route 43: towards Diakonissenhaus or Anna-Hintermayr-Stift
• Night bus route 91: towards Steppach, Bergen, Leitershofen, Königsplatz and Oberhausen
• Night bus route 93: towards Lechhausen, Hammerschmiede and Firnhaberau or Königsplatz and Hochzoll/Süd

All these lines except line 43, which is operated by the Storz company, are operated by the Augsburger Verkehrsgesellschaft (Augsburg Transport Company).

On the station forecourt there is a bus station with several bus platforms. A total of 22 regional bus lines, operating in all directions, start or end here.

Augsburg Hauptbahnhof

Augsburg Hauptbahnhof