sentences:  The station has been rebuilt several times since the war.In 1992, as part of the inauguration of the Duisburg Stadtbahn (light rail), the new northern connecting hall ("Verknüpfungshalle") was opened, all six platforms were lengthened to several hundred metres over the former road underpass connecting Mühlheimerstraße and Königstraße and provided with simple platform roofs, which are easily distinguished from the old station hall.On 12 December 2008 Deutsche Bahn and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia announced that much-needed renovation work would begin in mid of 2009.