knowledge Overview
The first station on this site went into operation in 1843; today's station building was erected in 1879. The through station is one of 21 Preisklasse 1 stations and, with around 280,000 travellers daily, Deutsche Bahn's seventh-busiest long-distance station; in 2016 around 750 trains passed through daily.
Services
- Long-distance rail: ICE 10, ICE 11, ICE 25; plus further ICE and IC lines (among others ICE 20/22 to Frankfurt) and Nightjet
- S-Bahn: Central hub of the Hanover S-Bahn opened in 2000 for the Expo, with lines S1–S8
- Regional rail: Numerous RE and RB lines, among others to Wolfsburg, Braunschweig, Bremen and Norddeich
Station layout
The station has six platforms with 12 platform tracks plus two continuous main tracks. North of the station, since 1975, lies the underground Stadtbahn station Hauptbahnhof with four tracks for the A and B lines of the Hanover Stadtbahn network.