Hamburg Hauptbahnhof

Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station for the German city of Hamburg and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 1 railway station. It was opened in 1906 to replace 4 terminal stations. Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is operated by DB Station&Service AG. With an average of 480,000 passengers a day, the railway station is the busiest in Germany and after the Gare du Nord and Gare de Châtelet – Les Halles in Paris, the third-busiest in Europe.The station is a through station with island platforms and is a major transportation hub, connecting long distance trains, like some Intercity-Express lines, to the underground rail network of the Hamburg U-Bahn and S-Bahn. It is situated in the city centre, in the Hamburg-Mitte borough. A part of the building is a shopping centre.