Ebertplatz station is the largest
underground station
A metro station or subway station is a train station for a rapid transit system, which as a whole is usually called a "metro" or "subway". A station provides a means for passengers to purchase tickets, board trains, and evacuate the syste ...
on the
Cologne Stadtbahn
The Cologne Stadtbahn is a light rail system in the German city of Cologne, including several surrounding cities of the Cologne Bonn Region (Bergisch Gladbach, Bonn, Bornheim, Brühl, Frechen, Hürth, Leverkusen-Schlebusch, Wesseling). The te ...
, and is served by lines 12, 15, 16 and 18. The station lies at Ebertplatz on the
Cologne Ring
The Cologne Ring (known in German as: ''Kölner Ringe'') is a semi-circular, some 6 km long urban boulevard in Innenstadt, Cologne and the city's busiest and most prominent street system. The Cologne Ring is a four lane street and part of B ...
in the district of
Innenstadt.
History
The station was opened in 1974 and consists of a
mezzanine
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and two island platforms with four rail tracks. From the beginning, it was built to efficiently handle large passenger volumes, as it features no at-grade crossings of lines like some previous underground stations. Before 2008, the station also offered two side platforms on the outer tracks so passengers could board and leave on both sides. This was due to the fact that the station was also used by single-ended tram cars, so each track had to have a platform on the right. To gain
accessibility, the platforms for the trains from and to Dom/Hbf had to be elevated, as high-floor cars operate on this route. However, the other tracks leading to the ''Ring'' tunnel are only used by low-floor cars, so the island platforms were split in the middle into a low and a high side. Therefore, the platforms were widened, using the space from the former outer platforms, which were removed.
On the 8th of October 2022, a train of line 18 caught fire while standing at the station. During the incident, six people were injured, and operations had to be stopped for several hours.
Notable places nearby
* Eigelsteintor
* Neusser Straße
* Theodor-Heuss-Ring
* Bastei
See also
*
List of Cologne KVB stations
This is a list of Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe, KVB light rail Metro station, stations of the Cologne Stadtbahn system. The system covers the city of Cologne, as well as several surrounding cities (Bergisch Gladbach, Bonn, Bornheim (Rheinland), Bornh ...
References
External links
*
station info page
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Cologne KVB stations
Innenstadt, Cologne
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1974
Cologne-Bonn Stadtbahn stations