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Rhein-Express
The Rhein-Express is a Regional-Express (RE 5 (RRX)) service, which generally follows the Rhine () river. It runs daily every hour from 5 am to 9 pm from Wesel via Oberhausen, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Remagen and Andernach to Koblenz, in the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. It is the fourth-most used regional express line in the VRR network with approximately 48,000 passengers a day. Until the timetable change in December 2016, the Rhein-Express ran to/from Emmerich. Operations on this section and the additional services provided by Regionalbahn service RB 35 (''Der Weseler'') have since been operated as part of the Rhein-IJssel-Express (RE 19). History The ''Rhein-Express'' was established in 1998 with the introduction of the integrated regular interval timetable in North Rhine-Westphalia (called ''NRW-Takt'') by combining two services that previously started or finished in Cologne. Originally, the RE 5 service stopped at almost al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Köln Hauptbahnhof
Köln Hauptbahnhof () is the central station, central railway station of Cologne, Germany. The station is an important local, national and international transport hub, with many Intercity-Express, ICE, Eurostar and Intercity (Deutsche Bahn), Intercity trains calling there, as well as regional Regional-Express, RegionalBahn and local Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, S-Bahn trains. EuroNight and Nightjet night services also call at the station. It has frequent connections to Frankfurt by way of the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line, which starts in southern Cologne. On an average day, about 280,000 travellers frequent the station, making it the List of busiest railway stations in Germany, fifth busiest station in Germany. The station is situated next to Cologne Cathedral. There is another important station in Cologne, the Köln Messe/Deutz station across the river Rhine, just about 400 metres away from Köln Hauptbahnhof. The stations are linked by the Hohenzollern Bridge, a six-track rail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leverkusen Mitte Station
Leverkusen Mitte (''Bahnhof Leverkusen Mitte'') is a railway station on the Cologne–Duisburg railway, located in Leverkusen, Germany. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. It is served by the S6 line of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn at 20-minute intervals. Train services The station is served by the following services: *Regional services NRW-Express ''Aachen - Cologne - Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Dortmund - Hamm - Paderborn'' *Regional services Rhein-Express The Rhein-Express is a Regional-Express (RE 5 (RRX)) service, which generally follows the Rhine () river. It runs daily every hour from 5 am to 9 pm from Wesel via Oberhausen, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Remagen and Andernach to Koblenz, ... ''Emmerich - Wesel - Oberhausen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz'' *Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn services ''Essen - Kettwig - Düsseldorf - Leverkusen- Cologne - Köln-Nippes'' Bus services It is also served by the following bus routes: 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonn-Bad Godesberg Station
Bonn-Bad Godesberg station is on the Left Rhine line () in the Bonn district of Bad Godesberg in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a four-track through station, which does not have a “home” platform attached to the station building. Instead, it has two through and overtaking tracks on two island platforms, with one platform numbered 1 and 4 and the other 2 and 3, which is unusual in Germany, but occurs several times on the Left Rhine line. History The station was inaugurated on 15 October 1855 as part of the extension of the Left Rhine line from Bonn to Rolandseck station. The need for Godesberg station, which was then in open fields, was said to stem from the fact that Godesberg was the location of the summer homes of many shareholders of the Bonn–Cologne Railway Company and the president of the Rhenish Railway Company. For years the shareholders had a table in the station buffet and insisted on almost all trains stopping in Godesberg. From the turn of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brühl Station
Brühl station is a railway station in the city of Brühl in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It consists of a passenger station and a freight yard about a kilometre to the north. Both parts of the station are on the Left Rhine line (); the freight yard also has a connection via Brühl-Vochem to the Cologne port and freight railway network (''Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG'', HGK). History Brühl station was opened on 15 February 1844 by the Bonn-Cologne Railway Company (''Bonn-Cölner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', BCE) on the occasion of the visit of Queen Victoria and was from the beginning the most important stop between Cologne and Bonn. The station building was built on the first single-track line in sight of the Augustusburg Palace to a design by Johann Peter Weyer. Since large parts of the line run through the manorial estates, the royal family was able to assert its power in the area. In 1869, a second track was built, and the station building was relocate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Köln Süd Station
Köln Süd (Cologne South) station is located in the southwestern edge of the Innenstadt of Cologne in the district of Neustadt-Süd in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located between the streets of Luxemburger Straße and Zülpicher Straße. The station is a stop for regional services on the West Rhine Railway. The Cologne freight railway bypass branches off from the station over the South Bridge; it is also used as needed by passenger trains. The station has four platform tracks at two island platforms and two tracks without platforms, which are used by the intensive freight traffic. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. History The original section of the West Rhine Railway () was opened in 1844 through the station as the ''Bonn-Cölner Eisenbahn'' (Bonn-Cologne Railway) on a direct approach to Cologne that ended at Cöln-Pantaleon station, which was then on the outskirts. With the opening of Central Station (''Centralbahnhof'', now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Köln Messe/Deutz Station
Köln Messe/Deutz station (called ''Köln-Deutz'' until November 2004, Colognian dialect, Colognian: , ) is an important railway junction for long-distance rail and local services in the Deutz, Cologne, Deutz neighborhood of Cologne in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is situated close to the eastern bank of the Rhine and connected via the Hohenzollern Bridge to Köln Hauptbahnhof, the city's main station, which is just a few hundred metres away. The Cologne Trade Fair () grounds are directly north of the station, hence the ''Messe'' in the station's name. The Deutz/Messe station of the Cologne Stadtbahn is nearby and connected to this station by a pedestrian tunnel. Köln Messe/Deutz is a junction station, which has platforms on two levels: the high-level platforms are used by trains running in the east-west direction across the Hohenzollern Bridge to and from Köln Hauptbahnhof. The lower level (''Köln Messe/Deutz tief'') is used by trains running in a north-south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Köln-Mülheim Station
Köln-Mülheim is a railway station situated at Mülheim, Cologne, Mülheim, Cologne in western Germany. It is served by several regional trains, the S6 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn), S6 and S11 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn), S11 lines of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn and the 13 and 18 lines of Cologne Stadtbahn. History In the 19th century there were several stations in Mülheim, since all the private railway companies had separate lines and railway facilities. The stations of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (, CME) on the Cologne–Duisburg railway, line between Cologne and Duisburg and the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (''Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn''-Gesellschaft, BME) on the Gruiten–Köln-Deutz railway, Gruiten–Cologne-Deutz railway) were next to each other in Buchheim-Strasse (now Wiener Platz). The station of the Rhenish Railway Company (''Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', RhE) on the Troisdorf–Mülheim-Speldorf railway was built outside the town at the site of the current Colog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düsseldorf-Benrath Station
Düsseldorf-Benrath station is about 10 kilometres south of Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof in the Düsseldorf district of Benrath. It is on the Cologne–Duisburg line, and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station. In addition, Düsseldorf Benrath station is served by two Regional-Express services, several city bus services and two Stadtbahn lines. Benrath is the second busiest station in Düsseldorf, after Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof, with about 25,000–30,000 daily entries and exits. On 23 January 1998, the station was heritage-listed by the city of Düsseldorf in the category of technical monuments. History In 1843, the Prussian Ministry of Finance gave the Cologne-Minden Railway Company permission to build a railway line from Cologne via Düsseldorf to Minden. Shares were put on sale to finance this project and many people from Benrath bought these shares on the understanding that Benrath would have a station on the new line. On 20 December 1845, the first sectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof
Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station of Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. History The station was opened on 1 October 1891. It replaced the three following stations: *the ''Bergisch-Märkische station'' of the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (BME), originally opened by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company in 1838 in the area that is now Graf-Adolf-Platz as a through station on the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway, company's east–west line from Elberfeld to its station at Rheinknie. *the ''Cologne-Minden station'' which the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (CME) opened in 1845 southeast of the BME station as a terminus to which branches were built from the company's north–south Cologne–Duisburg railway, Cologne–Duisburg main line, and *the ''Rhenish station'' built by the Rhenish Railway Company (RhE) in 1877 in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort at the end of a branch line from its north–south Troisdorf–Mülheim-Speldorf r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düsseldorf Airport Station
Düsseldorf Airport (''Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen'') is a railway station in Düsseldorf, Germany on the Cologne–Duisburg line that connects Düsseldorf Airport to Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte and long-distance trains, most of them ICE trains. Opened in May 2000, the new railway station has the capacity of 300 train departures per day. History The federal government provided €14.6 million towards the construction of Düsseldorf Airport station. It was inaugurated on 26 May 2000, in the presence of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, Wolfgang Clement. The station cost DM 125 million to build and went into operation on 28 May 2000. On 1 July 2002, the SkyTrain was opened. The track is long and high. After the commissioning of the SkyTrain had been delayed by a year due to software problems, the train stopped operations six times in the first two weeks of public operations and was then closed to 26 August. Current operations Up to 300 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonn Hauptbahnhof
Bonn Hauptbahnhof (''Bonn Central Station)'' is a railway station located on the left bank of the Rhine along the West Rhine Railway, Cologne–Mainz line. It is the principal station serving the city of Bonn. In addition to extensive rail service from Deutsche Bahn it acts as a hub for local bus, tram, and Bonn Stadtbahn, Stadtbahn services. History The first station was constructed in 1844 by the Bonn-Cologne Railway Company, as part of the West Rhine Railway. The current building was erected between 1883 and 1884. From 1870 Bonn–Oberkassel train ferry, a train ferry connected Bonn station to the East Rhine Railway. With the opening of the Voreifel Railway to Euskirchen station, Euskirchen, the station became a rail junction. In 1883 and 1884, a new station building was erected, which is now heritage listed. The station sharply increased in importance in 1949, when Bonn became capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, Federal Republic. Many politicians and federal emplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duisburg Hauptbahnhof
Duisburg Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the city of Duisburg in western Germany. It is situated at the meeting point of many important national and international railway lines in the Northwestern Ruhr valley. Lines The station is situated at the northern end of the relatively straight Cologne–Duisburg Railway, Duisburg to Düsseldorf railway line which has to cope with one of the highest daily loads in continental Europe. This line is slated to be widened to six tracks in the near future. Currently it has four—and in some places five—tracks. The Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach railway, line to Krefeld and Mönchengladbach runs to the south. This crosses the Rhine, River Rhine and then splits into the main line and a branch to Moers and Xanten at Rheinhausen. North of the station, seven tracks run to the Ruhr (river), River Ruhr crossing (which is a sight on the ''Route der Industriekultur'' (Route of industrial heritage) due to a maze of girder bridges) where Ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
