Garstedt station
Transit rail station in Germany
Garstedt is an underground station on the Hamburg U-Bahn line U 1. It was opened in June 1969 and is located in Norderstedt, Germany, in the borough of Garstedt, which was an independent municipality to the end of 1969.
History
Construction works for the station began in 1967, and it was opened in June 1969, after U-Bahn tracks of the Langenhorn railway had been extended to Garstedt. This was done in accordance with an agreement between the city of Hamburg and the former Garstedt municipality. Hamburg consented to expand the underground line to Garstedt, after it was allowed to expand the northern runway of Hamburg Airport onto Garstedt territory. The Alster Northern Railway (Alsternordbahn, ANB), which serviced the line to its southern terminus Ochsenzoll before, was shortened, first to former halt of Birkenweg, later to a newly constructed at-grade station at Garstedt. The train service at Garstedt U-Bahn station started on one track, the second was completed on 14 December 1969.
The station was originally planned in a terrain cutting, but the city decided to build the shopping centre "Herold Center" just east of the station, which was completed in 1970. In the 2000s the station entrance was re-built, the station square was partly roofed with a glass construction including new shopping arcades.
1969–1996 there was only a crossover for the trains south of the station.
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