Oststraße (VRR)
Metro Station East Street is a station of Düsseldorf Stadtbahn. He is in the course of the first and second trunk route in the downtown area of the North Rhine - Westphalian capital Dusseldorf. At the beginning of the plans for the light rail here a link was this considered with the fourth main line. Erected under the Friedrich- Ebert- Straße Underground Station was opened to traffic on May 7, 1988, opening up since the shopping street of East Street, which gave its name to the station, and is connected to the connection to the in Immermannstraße and Friedrich Ebert road traffic streetcar and bus routes also an important transfer point.
Location
The downtown tunnel of Düsseldorf city railway leads from the subway station stone Street / King Avenue Berliner Allee, crossing under the Friedrich -Ebert -Straße up to the junction with East Road in the Convention therein Metro Station East Road. The tunnel then continues under the Bismarck Street to Central Station.
The subway station itself is located in a central location in Düsseldorf city center. In the neighboring Immermannstraße there are several Japanese shops and restaurants as well as a hotel of a Japanese hotel group. The East Street is a shopping street that leads north to Schadowstraße with several department stores and large stores.
History
The original plans for a Düsseldorf Stadtbahn network envisaged a network design with four trunk routes. Of this has been realized with the summarized in the downtown tunnel first and second two original routes. The fourth main line should pass through the East Road Metro Station in north-south direction. So another interchange station would have occurred in the city rail network. The required fourth underground level, however, was already no longer taken into account in the construction work for the railway station and the downtown tunnel 1979-1988.
The station itself was completed in 1985 in the shell and passed after his inauguration on May 7, 1988 the traffic.
Bahnhofanlage
The station is run three stories. The upper level accommodates the distribution levels and results in the two low-lying levels. The second level features a central platform where the lines stop direction Heinrich -Heine -Allee. In the lower level there is access to the lines of direction Dusseldorf main station also on a central platform. Both levels are equipped with high-level platforms.
Additions Metro Station are both in the Friedrich- Ebert-Straße and in the Ostraße. In addition to several escalators and stairs also leads to an elevator installation to the platforms, with the escalators and stairs are first merged into two distribution levels. Of these, two staircases lead with escalators on the one in the middle tier to the trains direction of Heinrich -Heine -Allee and in the lower level of the main station.
The Düsseldorf Metro Stations of the first, second and third generation all have an almost identical design. The ceiling and walls are kept as well as the soil surface in black. A silver panel covers the located in the middle of the platform columns, and the other station furniture is kept in silver. The contrast to this subdued color schemes offer the beige walls. The stop names are placed on the information boards with black lettering on white ground, on the walls they are with black lettering on a white background, accompanied by wine-red lines above and below the script is executed.
Traffic
Metro Station East Street is located in the course of the first and second main line of Düsseldorf city rail network. All seven traveling on these routes lines serve the station. In addition to the interchanges between the various rail lines consist transfer connections to a tram and a further four bus lines, which stop at surface stops along the Immermannstraße and Friedrich- Ebert-Straße and make the integration into the grid of the Düsseldorf transport.
About the Express line from Krefeld and the other complementary lines of sea Busch and Neuss the left bank nearest neighbor cities and neighborhoods Loerick, Heerdt and Oberkassel be achieved. About the line from Duisburg neighboring city, as well as the northern parts of the city Wittlaer, Kaiserwerth and Lohausen is achieved. The branching in Stockum line to the ESPRIT arena binds to these and the Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre. In the old town there is a connection to the central transfer point Heinrich -Heine -Allee. There interchanges to several tram and bus lines, as well as from 2014 to the third main line, the so-called Wehrhahnlinie are available. Behind the interchange station Dusseldorf main station, which links the city railway S- Bahn Rhein -Ruhr and further links in the regional and mainline services, through the remainder of the first, or the second main line the south-east parts of the city Lierenfeld, Eller, Oberbilk, versts, Holthausen and Benrath, and the Heinrich- Heine University and the Botanical garden attached.
With one exception, all rail lines are operated by the Düsseldorf Rheinbahn alone. This is the line U79, which is operated jointly with the Duisburg transport company. To operate on the line U79, on the part of the Duisburg transport company, high-floor light rail vehicles of the type B80C. In addition, here, as on all the other lines, type cars B80D also hochflurig used. On the line U75 also operate also from tramcars of type GT8S, converted vehicles of the type GT8SU.
In local transport plan 2002-2007 of the City of Dusseldorf, the introduction of a new light rail line U80 is provided. For this the construction of a bypass around the Düsseldorf Exhibition with a new metro station Messe-Süd is necessary. If this measure should be implemented, the East Road Metro Station is provided as a breakpoint this line.
The following rail lines serve the metro station:
For the following tram line, there is a switch option: