In German it's a Bahnhof, what is it in English?
"Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof The Anhalter Bahnhof is a former railway terminus in Berlin, Germany, approximately 600 metres (0.5 mi) southeast of Potsdamer Platz. Once one of Berlin's most important railway stations, it was severely damaged in World War II, and finally closed for traffic in 1952, when the GDR-owned ""Deutsche Reichsbahn"" rerouted all railway traffic between Berlin and places in the GDR avoiding the West Berlin area. The station's name lives on in the Berlin S-Bahn station of the same name, opened in October 1939 as part of the ""North-South S-Bahn link"". The Anhalter Bahnhof was the Berlin terminus of"
"Hamburger Bahnhof Hamburger Bahnhof is the former terminus of the Berlin–Hamburg Railway in Berlin, Germany, on Invalidenstrasse in the Moabit district opposite the Charité hospital. Today it serves as a contemporary art museum, the , part of the Berlin National Gallery. The station was built to Friedrich Neuhaus's plans in 1846/47 as the starting point of the Berlin–Hamburg Railway. It is the only surviving terminus building in Berlin from the late neoclassical period and one of the oldest station buildings in Germany. The building has not been used as a station since 1884, when northbound long distance trains from Berlin"
"Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof (German for ""Frankfurt (Main) main station""), often abbreviated as Frankfurt (Main) Hbf and sometimes translated as ""Frankfurt central station"", is the busiest railway station in Frankfurt, Germany. The name affix ""Main"" comes from the city's full name, Frankfurt am Main. Because of its location in the middle of Germany and usage as a hub for long and short distance travelling, Deutsche Bahn refers to it as the most important station in Germany. In the late 19th century, three stations connected Frankfurt to the west, north and south, the Those three stations were placed beside"
"In German-speaking countries, various terms for goods station are used including ""Güterbahnhof"" in Germany (abb: ""Gbf"") and Switzerland (abb: ""GB""), ""Frachtenbahnhof"" (""Fbf"") in Austria; ""Umschlagbahnhof"" (Ubf) for transshipment station and ""Containerbahnhof"" or ""Containerterminal"" (""CT"") for container station or terminal. In French : ""gare aux marchandises"" or ""gare de fret"". Goods station A goods station (also known as a goods yard or goods depot) or freight station is, in the widest sense, a railway station where, either exclusively or predominantly, goods (or freight), such as merchandise, parcels, and manufactured items, are loaded onto or unloaded off of ships or road vehicles"
"translated to central: The German words for ""central station"" are ""Centralbahnhof"" and ""Zentralbahnhof"". Geographically central stations may be named ""Mitte"" or ""Stadtmitte"" (""city centre""), e.g. Koblenz Stadtmitte station. In most German cities with more than one passenger station, the principal station is called ""Hauptbahnhof"" meaning ""main railway station""; some German sources translate this as ""central station"" although stations named Hauptbahnhof may not be centrally located. While using Hauptbahnhof in its journey planner and passenger information, in English-language publications Deutsche Bahn uses variously Hauptbahnhof, Main and Central. In Germany, ""Hauptbahnhof"" is abbreviated to Hbf. The following stations historically bore the name"
"known as the ""Centralbahnhof"" or, in English, Basle Central Station and is still sometimes referred to today as the ""Centralbahnhof"" or Basel/Basle Central Station. In Switzerland, ""Hauptbahnhof"" is abbreviated to HB. Many railway stations in Britain that use 'Central' are not principal stations, and are called Central to distinguish them from other stations with different names, or for prestige. In some cases, a station originally owned by the Great Central Railway in locations served by more than one station was called ""Central"". ""Town"" also appears: for example distinguishes it from station. One of the few principal stations in Britain that"
"Bahnhofbrücke, Zürich Bahnhofbrücke is a road and tramway bridge over the Limmat in the city of Zürich in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Bahnhofbrücke meaning ""railway station bridge"", referring to the Hauptbahnhof Zürich, is situated outside of the historical core of the medieval town of Zürich. The bridge crosses the left-hand (western) and right-hand (eastern) bank of the Limmat, opposite of the Zürich Hauptbahnhof and connects the central railway station and the ""Central"" square respectively Limmatquai, connecting ""Rathaus"" and ""Lindenhof"" respectively the ""City"" and ""Unterstrass"" quarters. The Zürich tram lines 3, 4, 6, 7, 10 and 15, and the"
"Bahnbetriebswerk A Bahnbetriebswerk is the equivalent of a locomotive depot (or motive power depot) on the German and Austrian railways. It is an installation that carries out the maintenance, minor repairs, refuelling and cleaning of locomotives and other motive power. In addition it organises the deployment of locomotives and crews. In the Deutsche Bahn, a ""Bahnbetriebswerk"" is known today as a ""Betriebshof""; the ÖBB refer to it as a ""Zugförderungsstelle"" (""Zf""). Many other countries simply use the term 'depot'. The smaller facility, the ""Lokomotivstation"" (also ""Einsatzstelle"" or ""Lokbahnhof"") akin to the British sub-depot or stabling point, is affiliated to a"
"Haltepunkt In Germany, a Haltepunkt (abbreviation: Hp) is a railway facility at which passengers can board or leave trains, i.e. an access point for travellers. In contrast to a railway station, a ""Haltepunkt"" does not necessarily have railroad switches. There are exceptions, however, if it is locally connected to another service point. The important operational difference is that at a ""Haltepunkt"" only boarding and disembarking takes place (the train thus only stops), but at railway stations can be shunted or other trains can be awaited. The exact definition depends on national legal and operational provisions, which is why ""Haltepunkte"" are"
"Autobahn The Autobahn ( , plural ') is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official German term is (plural ', abbreviated ""BAB""), which translates as ""federal motorway"". The literal meaning of the word ""Bundesautobahn"" is ""Federal Auto(mobile) Track"". German ""autobahnen"" have no federally mandated speed limit for some classes of vehicles. However, limits are posted (and enforced) in areas that are urbanised, substandard, accident-prone, or under construction. On speed-unrestricted stretches, an advisory speed limit ("""") of applies. While going faster is not illegal as such in the absence of a speed limit, it can cause an increased liability"
"(station ""Hauptbahnhof/Münchener Straße""), 16, 17, 20, 21 and the Ebbelwei-Expreß. The lines U4 and U5 call at the subterranean Stadtbahn stop. Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof (German for ""Frankfurt (Main) main station""), often abbreviated as Frankfurt (Main) Hbf and sometimes translated as ""Frankfurt central station"", is the busiest railway station in Frankfurt, Germany. The name affix ""Main"" comes from the city's full name, Frankfurt am Main. Because of its location in the middle of Germany and usage as a hub for long and short distance travelling, Deutsche Bahn refers to it as the most important station in Germany. In"
"Bahnhof, so it formed a long thin rectangle within Mitte extending as a salient south from the rest of Mitte towards, and just over, the Landwehr Canal. The result was that Potsdamer Bahnhof was in the Soviet Sector of Berlin, which became the de facto capital of East Germany, while the approach track and neighbourhood to the East were in the American Sector of Berlin, and the neighbourhood to the West in the British Sector. As a terminus within East Berlin, but with its approach tracks coming through West Berlin, as with the Stettiner Bahnhof, the Deutsche Reichsbahn were not"
"Eilzug An Eilzug (pl: ""Eilzüge"", , , English: ""Regional fast train"") is a type of passenger train in German-speaking countries which roughly equates to a British 'fast-stopping train' or 'semi-fast train'. The term has largely been superseded, but is still used on some lines. In Germany Eilzug trains were middle-distance trains that usually ran between two conurbations and only stopped at important railway stations. In several public transport systems, there are also metropolitan railways (""Stadtbahn"", US: rapid transit) where trains on some routes run as ""Eilzüge"", stopping at fewer stations. The successor to the ""Eilzug"" in Germany today is the"
"being used for the only railway station in a town. In some cases, this is because other stations have closed but, in others, the station is called ""central"" even though there has only ever been one. In these cases, the term ""central"" was used to highlight the level of service required due to the station's importance in the network, particularly at important railway junctions. Similar to principal stations in Germany, the most important station in Zürich is called Hauptbahnhof (Main Railway Station), which in some sources is translated to ""central station"" in English. Additionally, Basel SBB railway station was originally"
"Hof, the ""Freiwillige Feuerwehr Hof"". In the yard of the former station on the edge of Hof's city centre there are still one or two former goods sheds. On the site of the first station the name of the restaurant, ""Alter Bahnhof"" opposite the post office recalls the existence of the old station as do plaques on the post office building and the ""Einsteighalle"". Hof Hauptbahnhof Hof Hauptbahnhof (German for ""Hof main station""; sometimes translated as ""Hof Central Station"" or described as ""Hof central station"" in English) is the main railway station in Hof in southern Germany and is situated"
"Fight"". Reeperbahn The Reeperbahn () is a street and entertainment district in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife (the other being Sternschanze) and also the city's major red-light district. In German, it is also nicknamed ""die sündigste Meile"" (the most sinful mile) and ""Kiez"". The Reeperbahn Festival is among the largest club festivals. The name ""Reeperbahn"" means ropewalk, which is a place where ropes are made (Low German ""Reep"" = rope, the standard German word is ""Seil""; ""Bahn"" = track). Until the 1620s Hamburg's ropewalks had been located in the Neustadt (New Town) quarter"
"or ""fortified refuge"" and is a widespread component of place names. The first element of the name is perhaps from Old High German ""hamma"", referring to a bend in a river, or Middle High German ""hamme"", referring to an enclosed area of pastureland. ""Hamburger"" in German is the demonym of Hamburg, similar to ""frankfurter"" and ""wiener"", names for other meat-based foods and demonyms of the cities of Frankfurt and Vienna (Wien), respectively. The term ""burger"", a back-formation, is associated with many different types of sandwiches, similar to a (ground meat) hamburger, but made of different meats such as buffalo in"
"German sign for a tram stop (""Haltestelle"") representing the overground station, a white U in a blue box, the German sign for an underground (""U-Bahn""), and the word GO, depicting the possibilities for walkers to use the passage to avoid waiting at traffic lights. Neumarkt (KVB) Neumarkt is a Stadtbahn station in Innenstadt, Cologne. The station is divided in an overground part for low-floor trains and an underground part for high-floor trains. It is important as a junction between the low-floor east-western lines (1, 7, 9) and the high-floor lines (3, 4, 16, 18). The overground part consists mainly of"
"Hamburg Hauptbahnhof Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (abbrev. ""Hamburg Hbf"") is the main railway station of the city of Hamburg, Germany and is classed by Deutsche Bahn as a category 1 railway station. Opened in 1906 to replace 4 separate terminal stations, today Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is operated by DB Station&Service AG. With an average of 550,000 passengers a day, it is Germany's busiest railway station and the second-busiest in Europe after the Gare du Nord in Paris. The station is a through station with island platforms and is one of Germany's major transportation hubs, connecting long-distance Intercity-Express routes to the city's U-Bahn and"
"Reeperbahn The Reeperbahn () is a street and entertainment district in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife (the other being Sternschanze) and also the city's major red-light district. In German, it is also nicknamed ""die sündigste Meile"" (the most sinful mile) and ""Kiez"". The Reeperbahn Festival is among the largest club festivals. The name ""Reeperbahn"" means ropewalk, which is a place where ropes are made (Low German ""Reep"" = rope, the standard German word is ""Seil""; ""Bahn"" = track). Until the 1620s Hamburg's ropewalks had been located in the Neustadt (New Town) quarter of"
"was moved to its current location between 1906 and 1913. The Badischer Bahnhof is located on Swiss territory, but due to the 1852 treaty between the Swiss Confederation and the state of Baden (one of the predecessors of today's Germany), the largest part of it (the platforms and the parts of the passenger tunnel that lead to the German/Swiss checkpoint) is treated as an inner-German station and is operated by the Deutsche Bahn. The shops in the station hall, however, are located in Switzerland, and the Swiss franc is used as the official currency there (although the euro is universally"
"""to keep, save, make secure"". In the German language, """" means castle or fortress, though so many towns grew up around castles that it almost came to mean ""city"", and is incorporated into many placenames, such as Hamburg, Flensburg and Strasburg. The word has cognates, or near cognates, in other Germanic languages. For example, ""burg"" in German, and ""borg"" in both Danish and Swedish. The equivalent word is also to be found in Frisian, Dutch, Norwegian, and Icelandic. Burgh in placenames is found in its greatest UK concentration in the East Anglia region of southern England, where also the word"
"also sometimes confused with ""beorh"", ""beorg"", 'mound, hill', on which see Hall 2001, 69-70). The Old English word was originally used for a fortified town or proto-castle, as in Burgh Castle, and was related to the verb ""beorgan"" (cf. Dutch and German ""bergen""), meaning ""to keep, save, make secure"". In German """" means castle or fortress, though so many towns grew up around castles that it almost came to mean ""city"", and is incorporated into many placenames, such as Hamburg, Flensburg and Strasbourg. The fort is roughly rectangular, measuring (internally) approximately by . The walls on the north, east, and"
"film, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is seen parking his car here, entering the station and leaving a bag in a locker, and tracking down Pamela Landy (Joan Allen). Berlin Ostbahnhof Berlin Ostbahnhof (German for ""Berlin East railway station"") is a main line railway station in Berlin, Germany. It is located in the Friedrichshain quarter, now part of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough, and has undergone several name changes in its history. It was known as Berlin Hauptbahnhof from 1987 to 1998, a name now applied to Berlin's new central station. Alongside Berlin Zoologischer Garten station it was one of the city's two main"
"(commonly referred to as main) stations (""Hauptbahnhof"" or ""Hbf"") of large cities with 500,000 inhabitants and above, though some in smaller cities, like Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof, are regarded as important because they are at the intersection of important railway lines. Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne, the four biggest cities in Germany, have more than one Category 1 station. Included in this category are the following stations: Most of the about 87 stations in Category 2 are either important junctions of long-distance traffic or offer connections to large airports. InterCity and EuroCity trains generally call at these stations. All railway-related services, like"
"accepted). The customs controls are located in a tunnel between the platforms and the station hall; international trains which continue to Basel SBB usually have on-board border controls. Passport controls were abolished when Switzerland joined the Schengen Area in 2008. Basel Badischer Bahnhof Basel Badischer Bahnhof (literally ""Basel Baden Railway station"", the name referring to the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railways, which built the station) is a railway station situated in the Swiss city of Basel. The station is situated on Swiss soil, but the station is operated by the German railway company Deutsche Bahn. A customs border is"
"Brandenburg Hauptbahnhof Brandenburg Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in the town of Brandenburg an der Havel in the German state of Brandenburg. It lies on the Berlin–Magdeburg railway at the junction with the Brandenburg Towns Railway. It has largely lost its former major role for long-distance passenger services and freight traffic, but it continues to serve regional traffic. A water tower on the site of the former freight yard and a plaque commemorating French forced labourers at the station buildings are heritage-listed. The station was renamed ""Brandenburg Hauptbahnhof"" at the end of World War II, previously it had been"
"Redesigns of the Central–Bahnhofbrücke area occurred in 1950/51. Bahnhofbrücke, Zürich Bahnhofbrücke is a road and tramway bridge over the Limmat in the city of Zürich in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Bahnhofbrücke meaning ""railway station bridge"", referring to the Hauptbahnhof Zürich, is situated outside of the historical core of the medieval town of Zürich. The bridge crosses the left-hand (western) and right-hand (eastern) bank of the Limmat, opposite of the Zürich Hauptbahnhof and connects the central railway station and the ""Central"" square respectively Limmatquai, connecting ""Rathaus"" and ""Lindenhof"" respectively the ""City"" and ""Unterstrass"" quarters. The Zürich tram lines 3,"
"Hamburg Airport station Hamburg Airport (Flughafen) is a station of line S1 of the Hamburg S-Bahn, serving Hamburg's airport in the quarter of Fuhlsbüttel in the northeast of the city. It opened in 2008. According to S-Bahn Hamburg GmbH — owner and operator of the S-Bahn — about 13,500 passengers used the service per day in 2009, with an increase to 20,000 daily passengers by 2013. The station's name is identical in both English and German with the English word ""airport"" being used primarily in both languages and with the German equivalent ""Flughafen"" added in brackets. During daytime the station"
"Basel SBB railway station Basel SBB railway station (, or in earlier times ""Centralbahnhof"" or ""Schweizer Bahnhof"") is the central railway station in the city of Basel, Switzerland. Opened in 1854, and completely rebuilt in 1900–1907, it is Europe's busiest international border station. As its name suggests, Basel SBB is owned by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS). The other major railway station in Basel is Basel Badischer Bahnhof, which is on the north side of the Rhine from the city centre. Trains operated by SBB CFF FFS use Basel SBB to link Basel with destinations within Switzerland and"
"the Franks on the Main"". Among English speakers, the city is commonly known simply as Frankfurt, but Germans occasionally call it by its full name to distinguish it from the other (significantly smaller) German city of Frankfurt an der Oder in the federated state of Brandenburg on the Polish border. The city district Bonames has a name probably dating back to Roman times, thought to be derived from ""bona me(n)sa"" (good table). The common abbreviations for the city, primarily used in railway services and on road signs, are ""Frankfurt (Main)"", ""Frankfurt (M)"", ""Frankfurt a. M."", ""Frankfurt/Main"" or ""Frankfurt/M"". The common"
"origin in ""Baren"", meaning a small stream - Berner Au in this case. Farmsen-Berne was an exclave of Hamburg in Prussian territory. In 1937, the villages were incorporated into Hamburg by the Greater Hamburg Act, which came into force in 1938. Hamburg U-Bahn line U1, the former Walddörfer railway, was built since 1912 in the area and has three stops in Farmsen-Berne: Trabrennbahn, Farmsen, and Berne, of which Farmsen station is the largest. It has four tracks, and a railway repair workshop is located here. Farmsen-Berne Farmsen-Berne is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany, in the borough of Wandsbek. More than"
"means ""intercourse"" and ""Pendel"" also means ""pendulum""). They were withdrawn from sale in 2004. The U Bahn station Messe was used as coverage in the films ""Hanna"" and """". Berlin U-Bahn The Berlin (; short for ""Untergrundbahn"", ""underground railway"") is a rapid transit railway in Berlin, the capital city of Germany, and a major part of the city's public transport system. Together with the S-Bahn, a network of suburban train lines, and a tram network that operates mostly in the eastern parts of the city, it serves as the main means of transport in the capital. Opened in 1902, the"