Bremen Main Railway Station

Everything went very smoothly and I had a bit of a layover in Bremen. The connecting train was 10 minutes "delayed".

It's really interesting how people react to that: "That was obvious!", "Always the same!". That's really very German behaviour. Yes, funny... 10 minutes is considered punctual in the rest of the world, but here it's considered late.

The bus in Sicily was also callled punctual at +/- 10 minutes. Here, people would have put up a notice if the train had left 5 minutes earlier than scheduled. When I was in Portugal recently, the bus was always already gone 🤣. Oh, the Germans 🤪.

But now some information: Bremen station is no comparison to Hamburg, but have a look yourself.

Bremen's first train station was opened in 1847 on the site of today's station. It connected to direction Hanover.

In 1870, the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn built another station some hundred metres north of the old station, since the old station could not cope with the additional Rollbahn traffic.

Eventually, it was decided that a single station would be better, and so today's station was built from 1886 to 1891 after plans by Hubert Stier, with sculptures by Diedrich Samuel Kropp and Carl Dopmeyer.

The station hall was thoroughly renovated in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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