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Gilbert B Norman wrote:So long as we seem to be "hopscotching the world for stations" at this topic, this is the Berlin Hauptbahnhof I recall.Interesting photo :o)
Well, that was 1990 and in East Berlin; I believe there was still visible bomb damage.
Nevertheless, I was of thought that the new "Hbf" is a run-through station, and I thought the term "Hbf" was reserved for stub end terminal stations such as at Frankfurt/Main; apparently not the case.
The term Hauptbahnhof just literally means "main station", and does not refer to stub end or through tracks. Almost all cities big enough to have more than one station in the metropolitan area has one, and most of them will be run through (Hamburg comes to mind as another big one)