Ghost station

Ghost station is a slang term for a station that was never put into operation or structurally is in operating condition, but no longer in operation. These primarily include underground stations, which are particularly scary when they are dimly lit.

Usually arise ghost stations from traffic or other organizational reasons. A special case was Berlin between the construction of the Wall in 1961 and its fall in 1989 is completely shut down as many S- and U- train stations within the city due to the politically motivated division of the city or pure transit stations were.

2.1 Within Vienna,
2.2 Outside of Vienna,

Situation in Germany

Within Berlin

In Berlin, the term ghost station has been heavily influenced by the tunnel stations of the S- Bahn and U -Bahn, which were suspended on Sunday, August 13, 1961 for the passengers and, where after the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 West Berlin lines without traction under East Berlin territory drove through. This was due to the location of the district center, which belonged to the East and bordered to the north, west and south to West Berlin. He was two subway lines (U6, U8 ) and an S -Bahn tunnel route (from 1984: S2) cut that lead from the western part of the eastern part again in the western part.

The term " ghost station " alludes to the impression that the passengers of the West Berlin lines were when they (for the subway: 25 km / h) at a slow speed drove through a dimly lit, but visible guarded train station. On the web spiders of BVG - West these stations were marked with regular stations deviating signature and the legend " stations where not keep the trains " on East Berlin's plans, the stations were not shown. The passengers were informed at border stations with signs and announcements: " Volta Street. Last station in West Berlin. Last station in West Berlin. "Until the Berlin Agreement in 1972 was the warning message" Last station in the western sector, the last station in the western sector. " In the 1950s, the naming of the protective power of the sector was common, for example: "Cook Street. Last station in the American Sector ".

On the aboveground Berlin metropolitan railway between West and East Berlin (from 1984: S3 ) to the terminus Friedrichstrasse there was no ghost station, as between their terminus in East Berlin and the last station in West Berlin ( Lehrter station), no further breakpoint lay. An aboveground ghost station was the Bornholm Street station, which was on East Berlin territory and was traversed by the North-South S -Bahn without stopping. The station building at the border crossing Bornholm road would have been accessible from the West Berlin side of. Even before the Wall came down, there were plans to reopen the support for the West Berlin S-Bahn. To the east of the platforms, there was behind the wall, a connecting curve, drove to the East Berlin S -Bahn and long-distance trains through the borders. Also, the nearest train station to the northwest, Wollankstraße station was on East Berlin territory, however, was accessible from the West Berlin side without control, the S -Bahn trains of the West network (from 1984 S2 ) held there. The wall ran directly east of the station, the access direction East Berlin were closed. Even after the acquisition of the S-Bahn operating rights in West Berlin by the BVG 1984, the trains were further handled at the Wollankstraße S-Bahn station by staff of the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

List of Ghost Stations

Subway Line 6: from north to south, between the West Berlin stations Reinickendorfer road and street cooking

Metro Line 8: from north to south, between the stations of West Berlin Voltastrasse and Moritz Place

Berliner Northern Railway: between Wollankstraße (from West Berlin accessible station on East Berlin territory ) and healthy well

North-South Tunnel: from north to south between the Humboldt Hain stations and Anhalt Station West Berlin

Station Berlin- Friedrichstrasse

At the Friedrichstrasse station kept the trains, so he was not a ghost station. Here West Berlin passengers were without border controls between the U6, the S2 ( north-south tunnel ) and the S3 (light rail ) change or go to the mainline. To this end, the location in East Berlin station was divided into an eastern and western section and served with the so-called Palace of Tears as a border crossing point. The eastern section was a normal part of the internal transport network of the GDR ( S -Bahn ). The western area was hermetically separated from the surrounding East Berlin, comparable to the transit hall of international airports. The only ways to leave him, were climbing a path to West Berlin or the crossing of the East German passport control in the direction of East Berlin. The subway platform could only be reached via a long walkway from the underground S- train platform, all other outputs were bricked. On the platforms of the S- and U -Bahn Intershop outlets were on special offer for West Berlin - run - especially duty-free liquor and cigarettes.

Reopenings

The first ghost station was reopened Jannowitzbruecke ( U8), on 11 November 1989 at the - two days after the fall of the wall - again stopped trains. He was temporarily equipped with hand-drawn train destination signs; similar to the Friedrichstrasse station, a provisional East German passport control at the mid-plane has been established. On December 22, 1989 saw a second station Rosenthalerplatz ( U8) with an equally makeshift passport control.

The third station was Bernauer Straße ( U8) on 12 April 1990. It only its northern outlet was initially opened, however, leading directly from West Berlin, so that the establishment of border control was not necessary. The southern outlet was opened simultaneously with the remaining stations of the U6 and U8 on July 1, 1990, the date of the monetary, economic and social union between the two German states on which accounted for all border controls.

On July 2, followed Oranienburger Straße was the first S -Bahn station. After necessary renovations followed on 1 September 1990, the station Unter den Linden and North Railway Station. The Bornholm Street station followed on 12 December 1990, at first only on the platform of the western lines. For the East Berlin lines a second temporary platform on 5 August 1991 was opened to traffic. The last ghost station of the S-Bahn station was handed over to Potsdamer Platz after an extensive renovation of the north-south tunnel to traffic on 3 March 1992.

In the Berlin underground, there are additional commenced buildings that will never go in operation.

Outside Berlin

Augsburg Hirblinger Street: The breakpoint was built in the early 1930s at the height of the later part of the city of Augsburg - Bärenkeller as part of the realignment of the railway Augsburg- Ulm section Augsburg- Oberhausen- Neusäss. In the last years of operation stopped here mostly only passenger trains to and from Welden. Due to the upgrading of the section on ICE pace of the breakpoint was closed in the early 1990s. Reactivation during the project Regional S -Bahn Augsburg is planned.
Detmold - Remmighausen: The completed around 1895 station was closed in 1975 from unprofitability. The station building and a side track are now in possession of Lippi 's iron industry. The station will continue to operate in freight train crossings also find there continue to be held.
Detmold - Nienhagen: The operation of this station in passenger was set in 1988. In September 2005, the last three points were removed and taken to the station out of service; But trains continue through.
Duisburg Anger arch: On the light rail route betwee Duisburg and Dusseldorf was built in 1974 in the south of the city to develop a satellite town a train station. Only in 2002 was the construction of a settlement started ( with significantly less living space than originally planned ) on the premises, the then 10.5 million euro expensive station is still unused, stairs were removed and bricked up entrances.
Dusseldorf -Heinrich -Heine -Allee: Below realized on two levels, highly frequent subway station, there is another, currently under construction, third level as an input of 1983 for the so-called Wehrhahnlinie.
Dusseldorf airport departures E: an Interim support for the S -Bahn lines S1 and S21 in 1998, operated only in the direction of Dusseldorf airport terminal. Today, the platform is the only reminder off, which can be viewed on a ride on the SkyTrain monorail.
Dusseldorf Kalkum: The " Station Kalkum " was an unused since 1846 stop on the main line of the Cologne -Minden Railway Company. After opening the S- Bahn Rhein -Ruhr he was most recently still hold the line of the S1 (at times also S21) between Angermund and Dusseldorf sub Rath ( or terminal Düsseldorf Airport ). Remnants of the covered platform are still clearly visible today. On May 27, 1990 ( the start of the summer timetable ) this station was abandoned due to the small classified needs.

Großhansdorf - Beimoor: In the extension of the Hamburg U -Bahn line U1 is located behind the terminus Großhansdorf on former Hamburg area that never went into operation stop Beimoor.
Gummersbach Derschlag: The Derschlag station is located at the now-defunct part of the railway route Siegburg - Olpe. Except for a barrier still contains all the necessary for the operation of tracks there, as well as various other structural features, although the total traffic shut down since 1997 and the route has long been separated on both sides, also near the train station to the west, dismembered and from the other network. When entering the station, it works but, as might be here for some free cut quite still drive a train.
Hamburg Hellkamp: on the U2 line is located in the district Eimsbuettel between stops Osterstraße and Lutterothstraße the former terminus Hellkamp, which was opened in 1914. In 1965 the line was extended first Tierpark Hagenbeck as U2 to. In favor of the stop Lutterothstraße the underground station was abandoned. The situation can be seen only on the expansion of the tunnel and some tiles on the walls today.

Hamburg Hauptbahnhof Nord: The stop was the late 1960s, equipped with four platform tubes, of which only the middle two are used for U2 today. The other two were created as constructed provisions for one and was originally designed line between Lurup and Winterhude that has not been built. The unused tubes were partially equipped and even provided with billboards, but shortly after the opening of the station (29 September 1968) closed again. The north tube is used for an art installation since the 1990s.
Hattstedt railway station: 5 km from Husum is another station, which is no longer in operation since late 1980. Since the station was not economical, it was closed. Even today, the platform is available. In a modernization of the exhibition in the late 1990s was the two barrier systems, between which kept the trains, reduced to one in the middle, which would complicate a possible future operations. Time and again it has been speculated to take the station back to the grid. The train station is just like the Husum North Station from the train march through without intermediate stops. Ghost station of the D- line under the main train station in Hannover
Hanover Central: Below that are in operation level of the subway station Hauptbahnhof is another unfinished in the shell station that one ( not currently scheduled ) is used underground expansion of the D-line in the downtown area as an input.

Cologne Fixheider way: This city tram stop in 2003 replaced by about 200 meters to the south, built in stop Weidenbruch. The two side platforms and the former access stairs are still preserved.
Cologne: The train station Porz- Heumar on the railway line Cologne-Kalk - Overath is with tracks and station building still exists, however, no longer holds the regional train to Marie Heath since decommissioning in the 1980s here. The train station is only used, if not due to construction work the other stations and stops nearby in operation.
Station Cologne Deutz / Messe Köln Arena: When the light rail Deutz was constructed in east-west direction in the tunnel, it is created as inputs into the area Deutz / Messe tunnel station for Deutz north- south subway line in the third level. She is unused to date, and is not taken according to current plans into operation.
Cologne Metro Station Haymarket: About the level of the North-South railway was built as a wholesale service for an underground leadership of the East-West rail station a tunnel. You should be transitional provided for the coming years with commercial premises.
Cologne Metro Station Severin Street: A fully underground east-west route between Post Road and the ramp of the Severin Bridge is scheduled.

Leuna: Until 1998, wrong trains of the railway line Merseburg and Leipzig; traffic, however, was set on 23 May 1998, thus no longer served the Leuna station.
Ludwigshafen: As part of the decommissioning of the former city railway tunnel cost reasons, the station was completely Danziger Platz and the main train station and City Hall stations partially decommissioned.
Munich Olympic Stadium: It was built during the 1972 Summer Olympics to provide a second powerful means of transport to the Olympic center is available next to the Munich U -Bahn. After the end of the European Football Championship 1988, the station was closed in 1988.
Munich: On December 12, 2004 the station was in Mühlthal ( between Gauting and Starnberg ) is replaced with the timetable change of the Munich S-Bahn by the new station Starnberg Nord, about one kilometer south. Since then, the S6 runs through this station through a non-stop.
Nothberg ( Eschweiler ): not more struck by the Regional Express since 2009. However, traveling on the same route Euregiobahn moves to the 500 m northerly breakpoint Eschweiler- Nothberg.
Former railway station Solingen South: On 28 May 2006, taken as part of the Local 2006, the new breakpoint Solingen Grünewald and on 10 December 2006, the new breakpoint Solingen -Mitte in operation. The intermediate old Solingen Hauptbahnhof ( 1890-1913 " Solingen South " ) was decommissioned on 28 May 2006, abandoned as a place of business and since then drive through without stopping. However, the platforms and the railway bridge can still be seen. The former station building is now a museum. Since 10 December 2006 under the name " Solingen Hbf" the remote station is entered, until then the name " Solingen- Ohligs " wore.
Saarbrücken Exhibition Train: The built in the 1960s exhibition closed the station with commuter train to the fair. Since 1997 this has been taken over by the Saar Subway S2. 2006 drove the S2 the last time and the line was shut down, as well as the fair buses could take the passenger operation on himself. On the occasion of the 65th Saarmesse was a last operation in 2009. Since the fair train station and the associated Rossel Valley Railway is completely shut down, but the train station sign and platforms are still very easy to recognize.
Stuttgart -Zuffenhausen: The station was rebuilt in the 1970s following the introduction of the S -Bahn Stuttgart. As it was planned in the time to replace the tram line to the master home by subway, the underground in a long curve leading from the breakpoint Friedrich choice under the station through, preparatory work for the construction of an underground were the construction of the railway station been ground- station. After completion of the railway station, it took over 25 years before it ever came to concrete plans for converting the tram line 15 to tram operation. The construction of the north-western branch of the new line U15 ( Bau 2007 to 2011) was not performed, the final track on the station in Zuffenhausen.

Situation in Austria

Within Vienna,

The station Lerchenfelderstraße the Vienna U -Bahn line U2 was abandoned on 27 September 2003. Due to the extension of the platforms from 75 to 115 meters on the entire line of the U2 without this brief station distance shortened between the stations Lerchenfelderstraße and folk theater and led to the closure of the station Lerchenfelderstraße. Although there were panel members, station signs and benches away, yet the side platforms this ghost station when traveling with the subway can be seen to be good.

The stop Kahlenbergerdorf the S-Bahn Vienna was taken on December 12, 2004 out of service since the utilization of the station or was too small parallel bus services provide transport performance is sufficient. The stop bath beach was closed during the construction of the U6 between 4 May and June 1, 1996, which was used to move the entrance from the northeast to the southwest side. However, the same adjacent U6 station Neue Donau led to a further decrease in the already low frequency of the S-Bahn station, so this was decommissioned on 24 September 2000. But it is still present today.

Outside of Vienna,

As on July 31, 2010, the passenger traffic between Bad St. Leonhard and Zeltweg has been discontinued and only operate on this route buses, the rich rock station has since no longer in operation. Only for internal purposes, the ghost station rich rock / St. Peter, who is owned by ÖBB Immobilien GmbH, used.

Another station in the area of rich rock is the railway station Taxwirt, which is located on the border between Carinthia and Styria.

More Ghost Stations

Antwerp: The second axis of the Premetro Antwerp has been never opened, so there are eight spookstations.
Barcelona: The station Correos, located on the Yellow Line at the Main Post Office in Barcelona, was decommissioned in 1974. Until decommissioning and post there was loaded by subway.
Brussels: The station Sainctelette between Ribaucourt and Yser / Yser was built on the carcass ten years, but 1988 never opened during the commissioning of the local route, as they had to short distances to the other stations. Nevertheless, one sees while driving the pillars and stairs clear.
Charleroi: The stations Neuville, Chet, Pensee and Centenaire of light rail Charleroi are, like the distance made operable ready since 1987, but were never used in passenger service. More stations are under construction.
London: The British capital, there are numerous unused stations, see Closed stations London Underground
Madrid: Chamberi station on Line 1 between " Bilbao " and " Iglesia ". The extension of the platforms from 60 to 90 meters of the station distance between " Chamberi " and " Church " was only about 250 meters, so that the station was closed.
Moscow: The built 1975 Metro Station Wolokolamskaja the Tagansko - Krasnopresnenskaja line was built for the purpose of connecting an ultimately never built residential area. Meanwhile, there are plans to complete the station as Spartak Stadium, which could take place in 2015. The original name Wolokolamskaja has now been given to another Moscow metro station, which was opened in late 2009.
New York City: the platforms were, at the New York City Subway in the 1950s on some routes extended so that they could accommodate five car length trains now instead of ten as before. This would, however, in some places very small station spacing means which led to the closure of some stations, which are traversed by the trains today without stopping.

A similar phenomenon there are in Chicago. There the second half of the 20th century were abandoned and canceled numerous low-traffic stations of the elevated train local technical acceleration in the course. However, some remained until today are because they were originally built or renovated with funding from the federal government, which would have to be repaid in the event of abandonment.
Paris: Arsenal, Champ de Mars, the Croix- Rouge, Gare du Nord ( a platform), Haxo, Invalides ( a platform), Porte des Lilas - Cinéma, Porte Maillot ( a platform), Porte Molitor / Murat, Saint- Martin, Victor Hugo ( old train station )
Stockholm: There is a metro station, called Kymlinge (Blue Line ), which was prepared as a station during construction of the line, but is not used because the district is not yet built.
Toronto: Metro Station on the Bloor- Danforth Bay Line of the Toronto subway has below the station still in use today, a second platform level. She served as a boarding capacity for trains, which veered to the Yonge- University - Spadina today - line from February 1966 from the east coming in toward the museum. Because these lines but quickly proved to be technically extremely unfavorable, already no more trains took this route in September of the same year. However, the station is still fully operational.

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