Bremen Central Station - Operational Usage

Operational Usage

The station sees 100 long-distance and 410 regional trains per day. About 100,000 passengers per day use the station. The station features nine platform tracks, of which seven are in the station hall. In the hall, two tracks serve as through tracks for freight traffic. The station is electrified since 1964 and has been thoroughly modernised during the late 1990s. Both the passenger and mail subways, which used to be separate, were joined together and the station's subway now features a rich selection of shops and food halls, akin to a shopping mall. The platforms have been partly modernised as well (most notably platforms 5 and 6, which carry most of the southbound long distance traffic), and lifts have been put in.
Trains usually depart from:

• Track 1 - Osnabrück (Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line)
• Track 2 - Oldenburg (Oldenburg–Bremen line), Nordenham (Hude–Blexen line)
• Track 5 - Verden, Hanover (Bremen–Hanover line)
• Track 6 - Bremerhaven (Bremen–Bremerhaven line)
• Track 7 - Osnabrück (Intercity), Diepholz (Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line)
• Track 8 - Hamburg (Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line), Uelzen (Uelzen–Langwedel line)
• Track 9 - Hamburg (Metronom, Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line)
• Track 10 - Rotenburg (Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line)

The station is connected to the Bremen tramway network operated by BSAG by a large, six-track tram station in front of the main hall.