Trier Hauptbahnhof

Geschichte

Trier Hauptbahnhof is a railway station for the city of Trier, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is a through station, about 500m east of the inner city and the Porta Nigra.HistoryThe station was opened in together with the rest of the Moselle line, which formed part of the Kanonenbahn (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.Station facilitiesBuilding and platformsThe 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.