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Hamburg-Altona (or simply Altona) is a railway station in Hamburg, Germany, situated to the west of the city's main station, in the district which bears its name. A main line terminal station , most Intercity-Express (ICE) services linking Hamburg with southern Germany begin and terminate at Hamburg-Altona.
Altona is the location of a major railway station, Hamburg-Altona, connecting the Hamburg S-Bahn with the regional railways and local bus lines. The A 7 autobahn passes through Altona borough. According to the Department of Motor Vehicles (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt), in Altona 87,131 private cars were registered (359 cars per 1000 people).
The line begins at Altona station, where there is a four-track underground S-Bahn station, which has an attached reversing facility. The City S-Bahn line runs up a steep ramp (with a maximum gradient of 4.0%) to the surface and shortly later the Altona–Blankenese line branches off the line to Pinneberg and turns west.
The original route of the AKN was the Hamburg-Altona–Neumünster railway. Since 1965 AKN has been part of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (Hamburg Transport Association, HVV). In the Hamburg rapid transit network, AKN lines are marked with an orange A, sharing the map with the U-Bahn lines (U), S-Bahn lines (S) and Regionalbahn services (R ...
Between 1893 and 1898 it was replaced with a new building 400 metres further north, as extending the old station was impossible due to the dense development. The former station was expanded with a new north wing, to become the new Altona Town Hall. The new Altona station (until 1938 known as Altona Hauptbahnhof) was opened in 1898. It initially ...
Holstenstraße is a railway station in Hamburg, Germany, located in the quarter of Altona-Nord in the borough of Altona. [5] It is served by the rapid transit trains of the Hamburg S-Bahn. The station is managed by DB Station&Service. The station is situated directly beside the Neue Flora musical theatre and close to the Holsten Brewery. It was ...
The City S-Bahn is a 5,380 metre-long tunnel section of the Hamburg S-Bahn. It runs between Altona station and Hamburg Hauptbahnhof through the city centre of Hamburg and the districts of Altona and St. Pauli. The S-Bahn lines S1 and S3 of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (Hamburg Transport Association
It largely followed the Altona-Kiel road (Altona-Kieler Chaussee) built between 1830 and 1832 with its southernmost section running north along Holstensraße from the Kaltenkirchen station (Kaltenkirchener Bahnhof) in Gählerplatz in Altona. It ran over the Hamburg-Altona link line using folding track (this was able to fold to give one line or ...