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The destroyed main railway station in 1945. To the left are the ruins of the post and telegraph building, now the site of the Ernst-August-Galerie shopping centre. On the 28th of March 1945, the last major air raid on Hanover took place. The city was hit by multiple bombs from about 400 planes which hit the entire city.
As an important railway and road junction and production centre, Hanover was a major target for strategic bombing during World War II, including the Oil Campaign.
The routes therefore ran into the district of Lehrte in the form of a cross (hence Kreuzbahn = cross railway) and, as a result, Lehrte developed into an important railway hub. The government of the Kingdom of Hanover had initially taken over the construction of state railways, because no private sponsors could be found for the first railway ...
Operation Hannover or Operation Hanover (sources vary) was a German operation in April–June 1942 aimed at eliminating Soviet partisans, airborne troops and encircling Red Army soldiers near Vyazma (Smolensk Oblast). The operation was a complete success for the Germans.
A misunderstanding between two traffic controllers led to the head-on collision of two trains of the Bavarian Zugspitze Railway, a rack-railway, within a tunnel. Vilseck level crossing accidents [101] [102] 22 June 2001 4+3 16+19 At a level crossing in Dillingen, a train crashed into a car and derailed. The 4 people in the car died and 16 ...
1844 - Hanover–Braunschweig Railway in operation. 1847 Bremen–Hanover railway begins operating. Development of Ernst-August-Stadt area begins. [4] 1851 - Thalia Society founded. [11] 1852 Royal Theatre built. [2] [12] Hannoversches Tageblatt newspaper in publication. [4] 1853 - Hanoverian Southern Railway begins operating.
The Deutsche Reichsbahn (German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈʁaɪçsˌbaːn]), also known as the German National Railway, [1] the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, [2] and the German Imperial Railway, [3] [4] was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the regional railways of the individual states of the German Empire.
The Breitspurbahn (German pronunciation: [ˈbʁaɪtʃpuːɐ̯baːn], transl. broad-gauge railway) was a railway system planned and partly surveyed by Nazi Germany.Its track gauge – the distance between the two running rails – was to be 3000 mm (9 ft 10 + 1 ⁄ 8 in), more than twice that of the 1435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge used in western Europe.