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Cologne railway station

Location	Innenstadt, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany

Köln Hauptbahnhof (German for Cologne main station) is a railway station in Cologne, Germany. The station is an important local, national and international transport hub, with many ICE, Thalys and Intercity trains calling there, as well as regional Regional-Express, RegionalBahn and local 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 fifth busiest station in Germany.

The station is situated next to Cologne Cathedral.

Cologne Hauptbahnhof is one of the hubs of European long-distance traffic. Long-distance lines run on both sides of the Rhine via Cologne. Therefore, the station situated on the left (western) bank of the Rhine is connected to Köln Messe/Deutz station situated on the right (eastern) bank of the Rhine via the Hohenzollern Bridge. Long-distance trains connect in the station from the Ruhr region, southern Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium. Köln Messe/Deutz (tief) station is used by two ICE services on the right bank route. In the past, therefore, a direct connection, such as a moving walkway over the Rhine was considered, but this controversial idea was rejected as too expensive for the time being.

The Cologne rail node is at the centre of eleven routes radiating in all directions. More than 280,000 arriving and departing passengers are estimated to use 1,200 trains daily.

Line	Route
ICE 10	Berlin – Hannover – Hamm (train portions:) –	Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Köln Messe/Deutz – Cologne/Bonn Airport
ICE 10	Berlin – Hannover – Hamm (train portions:) –	Hagen – Wuppertal – Cologne (– Bonn – Koblenz)
IC 30	(Westerland –) Hamburg – Münster – Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart as EC from Mannheim continuing Karlsruhe – Freiburg – Basel – Zürich – / Interlaken Ost
ICE 30	Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Bremen – Osnabrück – Münster – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne
ICE 31	Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Bremen – Osnabrück – Münster – Dortmund – Hagen – Wuppertal – Solingen – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt – / Hanau – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Ingolstadt – Munich
IC 31	Kiel – Hamburg – Münster – Dortmund – Wuppertal – Cologne – Bonn – Mainz – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt (Main) – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Regensburg – Passau
IC 32	Berlin-Südkreuz – Berlin Hbf – Berlin-Spandau – Wolfsburg – Hannover – (Bielefeld – Hamm – Dortmund) or (Münster - Recklinghausen) – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Bonn – Mainz – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart - Ulm
IC 35	Norddeich Mole – Emden – Münster – Recklinghausen – Wanne-Eickel – Gelsenkirchen – Oberhausen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz
IC 37	Düsseldorf – Cologne – Bonn – Remagen – Andernach – Koblenz – Kobern-Gondorf – Treis-Karden – Cochem – Bullay – Wittlich – Schweich – Trier – Wasserbillig – Luxembourg
ICE 42	(Hamburg – Bremen –) Münster – Recklinghausen or Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Siegburg/Bonn – Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim – Stuttgart – Munich
ICE 43	(Dortmund – Wuppertal –) Cologne– Siegburg/Bonn – Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Basel
ICE 45	Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport – Montabaur – Limburg Süd – Wiesbaden – Mainz (– Darmstadt)
ICE 49	Cologne (– Cologne/Bonn Airport) – Siegburg/Bonn – Montabaur – Limburg Süd – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt (Main)
IC 55	Leipzig – Halle – Magdeburg – Hannover – Hamm – Dortmund – Wuppertal – Cologne
ICE 78	Amsterdam – Arnhem – Oberhausen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt (Main) (/– Basel)
ICE 79	Brussels – Aachen – Cologne – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt (Main)
THA 80	Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Aachen – Lüttich-Guillemins – Brussels – Paris-Nord
FLX 20	Hamburg – Osnabrück – Münster – Gelsenkirchen – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne
FLX 30	Leipzig – Lutherstadt Wittenberg – Berlin Südkreuz – Berlin – Berlin-Spandau – Hannover – Bielefeld – Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Aachen
NJ 421	Düsseldorf – Cologne – Bonn-Beuel – Koblenz – Mainz – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt South – Nuremberg –	Augsburg – Munich – Kufstein – Wörgl – Jenbach – Innsbruck
NJ 40421		Regensburg – Passau – Wels – Linz – Amstetten – St. Pölten – Wien Meidling – Vienna
NJ 425	Brussels-South – Brussels-North – Liège-Guillemins – Aachen – Cologne – Bonn-Beuel – Koblenz – Mainz – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt South – Nuremberg –	Augsburg – Munich – Kufstein – Wörgl – Jenbach – Innsbruck
NJ 50425		Regensburg – Passau – Wels – Linz – Amstetten – St. Pölten – Wien Meidling – Vienna

Regional services

Cologne Hauptbahnhof is also a hub for numerous Regional-Express and Regionalbahn services, mostly serving the station in Cologne every half-hour or hour, but sometime only every two hours:

Line	Line name	Route
RE 1	NRW-Express	Paderborn –) Hamm – Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Düren – Aachen
RE 5	Rhein-Express	Emmerich – Wesel – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Bonn – Remagen – Andernach – Koblenz
RE 6	Rhein-Express	Minden – Herford – Bielefeld – Hamm – Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf Hbf – Neuss – Cologne Hbf – Cologne/Bonn Airport
RE 7	Rhein-Münsterland-Express	Rheine – Münster – Hamm – Hagen – Wuppertal – Solingen – Cologne – Neuss – Krefeld
RE 8	Rhein-Erft-Express	(Kaldenkirchen) – Mönchengladbach – Grevenbroich – Rommerskirchen – Cologne – Porz (Rhein) – Troisdorf – Bonn-Beuel – Linz am Rhein – Koblenz Stadtmitte – Koblenz
RE 9	Rhein-Sieg-Express	Aachen – Düren – Cologne – Troisdorf – Siegburg/Bonn – Au (Sieg) – Siegen
RE 12	Eifel-Mosel-Express	Köln Messe/Deutz – Cologne – Euskirchen – Gerolstein – Trier
RE 22	Eifel-Express	Köln Messe/Deutz – Cologne – Euskirchen – Gerolstein
RB 24	Eifel-Bahn	Köln Messe/Deutz – Cologne – Euskirchen – Gerolstein
RB 25	Oberbergische Bahn	Köln Hansaring – Cologne – Overath – Gummersbach – Marienheide - Meinerzhagen (Diesel-S-Bahn)
RB 26	MittelrheinBahn	Köln Messe/Deutz – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Koblenz – Bingen – Mainz
RB 27	Rhein-Erft-Bahn	Mönchengladbach – Grevenbroich – Rommerskirchen – Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport – Troisdorf – Bonn-Beuel – Linz am Rhein – Neuwied – Engers – Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein – Koblenz
RB 38	Erft-Bahn	Düsseldorf – Neuss – Grevenbroich – Bedburg – Bergheim – Cologne – Köln Messe/Deutz
RB 48	Rhein-Wupper-Bahn	Wuppertal-Oberbarmen – Solingen – Cologne – Bonn Central station – Bonn-Mehlem

S-Bahn trains

Köln Hauptbahnhof is integrated in the Rhein-Sieg S-Bahn network. From Monday to Friday S-Bahn trains run at 20-minute intervals during the day and at other times usually every 30 minutes. It is also served on working days by the S19 service between Düren and Au (Sieg), running hourly but substituting for an S13 service. Northwest of the Cologne Hauptbahnhof S-Bahn station is the Köln Hansaring S-Bahn station and to the east is the Köln Messe/Deutz S-Bahn station. All S-Bahn services serving the station, use these two stations.

Line	Network	Route
S 6	Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn	Köln-Nippes – Köln Hbf – Langenfeld – Düsseldorf Hbf – Ratingen Ost – Essen Hbf
S 11	Rhine-Sieg S-Bahn	Düsseldorf Flughafen Terminal – Düsseldorf – Neuss – Dormagen – Köln Hbf – Bergisch Gladbach
S 12	Rhine-Sieg S-Bahn	(Horrem –) Köln-Ehrenfeld – Köln Hbf – Troisdorf – Siegburg/Bonn – Hennef (– Au)
S 13	Rhine-Sieg S-Bahn	(Düren –) Sindorf – Horrem – Köln Hbf – Cologne/Bonn Airport – Troisdorf
S 19	Rhine-Sieg S-Bahn	Düren – Horrem – Köln Hbf – Cologne/Bonn Airport – Troisdorf – Siegburg/Bonn – Hennef – Au