The Leipzig main train station is also under the Deutsche Bahn of the most visited and not in a European comparison – and yet, over a hundred years of construction, was one of the top stations. As the best railway station in Europe, he was named in a Ranking, which is the point of view of the passengers in the view.
“Even if you can’t travel from Leipzig Central station from abroad, the station most domestic destinations, and a variety of shops and Restaurants,” according to the authors of the European Railway Station index. He “is used by several railway companies, what sets him among the Top five.”
For the Index is the international consumer protection organization, Consumer Choice Center took 50 stations under the magnifying glass. Assessment criteria were the number of approached the national and international destinations, the access to the platforms – also for wheelchairs:indoor, range of Lounges and the quality of the shopping and dining offers. Especially railway stations in the North of Europe were in the Top Ten.
In Leipzig, the main railway station in Vienna followed in second place, St. Pancras in London came in third, Amsterdam Centraal, and Moscow, Kazansky station together on the fourth place. Two other German stations reached the fifth place: the main train stations in Frankfurt am Main and Munich. The Rest of the Top 10 consists of the Moscow-Kursk railway station (sixth place), Milano Centrale (seventh place), Birmingham New Street (eighth place, before the eleventh place), Roma Termini (ninth place), as well as the Paris-Montparnasse, and Bologna Centrale (joint tenth place).
Among the 50 tested a few other German: Düsseldorf, Hannover and Stuttgart were stations yet reached the 12. from a total of 26. Places Hamburg came on the 14., Cologne, Berlin Central station and Nuremberg on the 15., Dortmund, on the 16., Essen and Bremen in the 19th century., Berlin-Ostkreuz on the 22., Berlin-Zoologischer Garten on the 23. and Berlin-Friedrichstrasse 24. Place.
Conclusion of the author: “to start A journey to one of the Top Ten train stations, promises a more comfortable getting to the train station and a good to very good passenger experience at the station.” The size of a station does not mean “necessarily more comfort or better infrastructure”. Some of the biggest railway stations, such as Paris-Nord to Madrid Atocha or Châtelet – Les Halles in Paris couldn’t have done it once in the top ten.
The Consumer Choice Center, headquartered in Washington, DC has created the Index for the second Time. For your evaluation, the auditor was involved, among other things, data from the websites of the stations and Online statistics.
