Steintor (Hanover Stadtbahn station)
The metro station is an important stone gate metro station on line C of the Hanover Stadtbahn. This is located in the homonymous square in Hannover Mitte district. West of the station branches off the C -north route in the north harbor and Haltenhoffstraße from C -west route in the direction of sticks and Garbsen. Keep it here lines 4, 5, 6, 11 and the event line 16
History
The station was opened on 30 March 1984. First, here only drove the Line 1, behind the station had its provisional end point. On 2 June 1985, the C -west line was fully opened on 26 September 1993, he was the C -north route.
Since the turn of the C North of the C- West was not foreseen in the original metro plan, the station was only two tracks and not, as usual with such branch stations, three tracks built.
Description
Station Part C - track
The station at the western and the eastern end of two non- jointed distribution levels in the 1 level, on which the access is the underlying platform level -2. The western entrance has escalators, the eastern by escalators and lifts. However, the latter do not reach the street level, so that this can be achieved for mobility-impaired persons only over a long ramp.
The next station to the east is Kroepcke, in the west it is on the C -west route King Platz and on the C -north route Christ Church.
Constructed provisions D- line
In the 3 level is a partially built in the shell more metro station, which was built as constructed provisions for an originally planned fourth underground tunnel (D tunnel). The shell is located diagonally below the station part of the C - section and was constructed only in their width. It is therefore much smaller than the constructed provisions for the D- line at the main station underground station.
The authority responsible for transport planning Hannover Region has now refrained from building the fourth tunnel and plans the aerial extension of the D- line. This should begin in 2014 and be completed in 2018. The route will take Aegidientorplatz lead to Raschplatz. Instead of building the D- part of the U -Bahn station on, will be built by the end of 2017 above ground in the south of the Long Münzstraße arbor a raised platform in the middle position. The platform receives a stairway to the western distribution level of the subway station.