Waterloo underground station
The subway station Waterloo is a subway station on the A-route of the Hannover Stadtbahn . The four-track branching station is located under the eponymous Waterlooplatz in the Hanover district of Calenberger Neustadt . Here keeping the features of the lines 3, 7 and 9, and in the night rating transport the dashed line 10 .
history
dated 1969, painter Heinz Baumgarte
On November 16, 1965, construction of the Hanover city railway began at Waterlooplatz. A short time later, work was suspended again due to financing problems. After the federal government had co-financed projects to improve traffic conditions in the communities since 1967, work was resumed.
A picture taken by the Hanoverian photographer Joachim Giesel around 1968 shows the large construction site of the later subway station Waterlooplatz as a huge excavation that narrows to the tunnel in the area of Friederikenplatz . In 1972, the first test drives could take place in the A tunnel between Gustav-Bratke-Allee and Kröpcke .
According to the original subway plans, the tunnel routes A-South and A-West were to be continued from the Waterloo station. In addition, an underground sweeping system was to be built. In view of these plans, some preliminary construction work was carried out during the construction of the station , which can be seen in the southern part of the station.
On September 28, 1975, the first tram line 12 was opened from the main train station via Waterloo to Oberricklingen . Initially, only the two inner tracks of the station were used, which led to the ramp in Gustav-Bratke-Allee. In 1979, the A-West route in the direction of Empelde was also connected to the tunnel via the ramp. This is where line 19 ran, which was later renamed 9.
In 1999 the two outer tracks were put into operation with the construction of the Legion Bridge . Lines 3 and 7 no longer led via Schwarzer Bär , but directly to the Siloah hospital stop (now Allerweg ). The original plan to continue the route underground was abandoned and instead crossed the Ihme on the Legion Bridge. During the construction of the extension, an advance construction work was again created in the form of a short tunnel section. This makes it possible one day to relocate the A-West route into a tunnel through Linden-Mitte .
description
The station has two directional platforms. The trains stopping on the two inner tracks take the Gustav-Bratke-Allee ramp to Linden-Mitte or the Glocksee depot or come from there. The trains to and from Ricklingen use the two outer tracks that lead to the ramp at the Legionsbrücke. The next station in the direction of the city center is Markthalle / Landtag , out of town follows the Allerweg stop on the A-Süd and the Schwarzer Bär stop on the A-West . Trains going in the direction of Glocksee stop next at the Humboldtstraße stop .
The previously largely unadorned concrete walls of the subway station, which was completed under great time pressure, were fundamentally renovated in 2014 and provided with images and panels on the city's history.
Lines
| 3 |
Altwarmbüchen - Noltemeyerbrücke - Four Borders - Lister Platz - Central Station - Waterloo - Allerweg - Linden / Fischerhof Station  - Wallensteinstrasse - Mühlenberger Markt - Wettbergen
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| 7th | Misburg-Schierholzstraße - Noltemeyerbrücke - Four Borders - Lister Platz - Central Station - Waterloo - Allerweg - Linden / Fischerhof Station - Wallensteinstraße - Mühlenberger Markt - Wettbergen
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| 9 | Fasanenkrug - Noltemeyer Bridge - Four Borders - Lister Platz - Central Station - Waterloo - Black Bear - Linden Market Square - Empelde |
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Ahlem - Brunnenstraße - Leinaustraße - Am Küchengarten - Glocksee - Goetheplatz - Humboldtstraße - Waterloo - Kröpcke - Hauptbahnhof |
literature
- Horst Moch: Tram in Hanover . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 2004, ISBN 3-933613-45-0
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ BMVBS ( Memento of October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Figure 31 in Hans J. Toll : Hanover , with photographs by Eckhart Breider, Joachim Giesel and Heinrich Weber, Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich, 1968, [without page number]
- ↑ uestra.de: subway stations
- ↑ Bernd Haase: Oldest tunnel station. History lesson under the Waterlooplatz Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung on August 16, 2013
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '2 " N , 9 ° 43' 43" E