The Anonymous Widower

The Largest Railway Station In The World

My journey took me to Leipzig Hauptbahnhof. Wikipedia says this about the station.

Leipzig Hauptbahnhof is the central railway terminus in Leipzig, Saxony. At 83,460 square metres, it is the world’s largest railway station measured by floor area. It has 19 overground platforms housed in six iron train sheds, a multi-level concourse with towering stone arches, and a 293-metre long facade. Two Leipzig City Tunnel underground platforms were inaugurated in December 2013. The station also functions as a large shopping centre.

Train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn, S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland, Erfurter Bahn and Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn. As of 2008, Leipzig Hauptbahnhof handled an average of 120,000 passengers per day.

The station is probably bigger physically than Kings Cross and St. Pancras International combined, although together they handled 153,000 passengers per day last year. This Google Map shows the station and the centre of Leipzig.

Leipzig

Note the size of the station and the number of platforms. And there are two more underneath on the Leipzig City Tunnel.

I found it an easy walk between the station and the centre.

These pictures show the station.

Note how like St. Pancras, there is a shopping mall underneath the platform level. I bought some excellent strawberries there. They were smaller and flavourful, unlike the tasteless, large Elsan variety we get offered in Supermarkets all the time.

June 15, 2015 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Home Run From Krakow, Leipzig, Stations