The underground station Breslauer Platz/Hbf next to the main station ("Hbf"
is the abbreviation for "Hauptbahnhof", the German word for "main station") in
Cologne seen from the entrance on 28 October 2006. For the construction of the
new underground line through the city centre, which branches off at the main
station, the station has to be reconstructed completely to become a junction
station with three platform tracks. For ten months the line between here and
Dom/Hbf is closed, and this temporary station located in the tunnel north of the
former station is used as terminal for line 19 (all other lines are diverted). A
low platform was built where the right track used to be, while the left track
remained (ending at a buffer stop which is out of the picture on the left). The
access is provided by the northern access of the former station, now located at
the southern end of the temporary station. The column and the fence on the left
mark the northern end of the old station, the latter was installed between the
tracks to avoid passengers crossing them. The startup of the new underground
line is planned for 2010.
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Digital photo by
<a href="http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/christoph.schmitz2/index.html">Christoph
Schmitz</a>
(<a href="mailto:christoph.schmitz2@post.rwth-aachen.de">christoph.schmitz2@post.rwth-aachen.de</a>)