Köln Hauptbahnhof

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Köln Hbf
Location
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Place	Cologne
Local authority	Altstadt
Operations
DS100 code	KK
Category	1
History
Key dates	Opened 1859
1894	Station expanded
1957	Station rebuilt
1991	S-Bahn tracks added
Deutsche Bahn - Stations in Germany
BW BY BE BR HB HH HE MV NI NW RP SL SN ST SH TH

The station hall

Köln Hauptbahnhof (usually translated from German as Cologne Central Station, short form: Köln Hbf) is the Hauptbahnhof for the city of Cologne in western Germany.

The station is an important local, national and international hub, with many ICE, Thalys and InterCity trains calling there, as well as local RegionalExpress, RegionalBahn and S-Bahn trains. EuroNight and DB NachtZug 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.

The station is situated next to the Cologne cathedral.

There is another important train station in Cologne, the Köln Messe/Deutz railway station on the eastern side of the Rhine river, just about 400 metres away from Köln Hauptbahnhof. The stations are linked by the Hohenzollernbrücke, a six-track railway bridge with passenger walkways on each side. Frequent local services also exist between the two stations.

1 Operational usage
2 S-Bahn
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Operational usage

The station has to cope with a very high daily load; even though some ICE services now call at the Köln-Deutz station, its platforms are still remarkably crowded during the day, and a major extension of the station is impossible because of its unique surroundings. Connections to the Cologne Stadtbahn network are made by two subterranean stations, Dom/Hbf and Breslauer Platz/Hbf at the respective ends of the station. The station has 11 main line passenger tracks, of which two are used for S-Bahn services; the two subterranean Stadtbahn stations have two tracks each. Its IATA code is QKL.

The station's building also hosts a large shopping mall, the Colonaden.

Previous station	DB AG	Next station
Köln-West toward Kall	RB 24	Köln Messe/Deutz Terminus
Köln Hansaring Terminus	RB 25	Köln Messe/Deutz toward Marienheide
Köln-West toward Koblenz Hbf	RB 26	Köln Messe/Deutz Terminus
Köln-Ehrenfeld toward Mönchengladbach Hbf	RB 27	Köln Messe/Deutz toward Koblenz Hbf
Köln-Ehrenfeld toward Horrem	RB 38	Köln Messe/Deutz toward Düsseldorf Hbf
Köln-West toward Bonn-Mehlem	RB 48	Köln Messe/Deutz toward Wuppertal-Oberbarmen
Brühl toward Koblenz Hbf	RE 5	Köln Messe/Deutz toward Emmerich
Dormagen toward Krefeld Hbf	RE 7	Köln Messe/Deutz toward Rheine
Köln-Ehrenfeld toward Mönchengladbach Hbf	RE 8	Köln Messe/Deutz toward Koblenz Hbf
Köln-Ehrenfeld toward Aachen Hbf	RE 1	Köln Messe/Deutz toward Hamm
Köln-Ehrenfeld toward Aachen Hbf	RE 9	Köln Messe/Deutz toward Gießen
Köln-West toward Trier	RE 12	Köln Messe/Deutz Terminus
Köln-West toward Gerolstein	RE 22	Köln Messe/Deutz Terminus

[edit] S-Bahn

Several Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines call at the station:

S 6 Köln-Nippes — Köln Hbf — Langenfeld — Düsseldorf Hbf — Ratingen Ost — Essen Hbf
S 11 (Wuppertal-Vohwinkel —) Düsseldorf — Neuss — Dormagen — Köln Hbf — Bergisch Gladbach
S 12 Düren — Horrem — Köln Hbf — Troisdorf — Siegburg — Hennef — Au
S 13 (Horrem —) Köln Hbf — Köln/Bonn Flughafen — Troisdorf

Previous station	Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn	Next station
Köln Hansaring toward Köln-Nippes	S6	Köln Messe/Deutz toward Essen Hbf
Köln Hansaring toward Wuppertal-Vohwinkel	S11	Köln Messe/Deutz toward Bergisch Gladbach
Köln Hansaring toward Düren	S12	Köln Messe/Deutz toward Au
Köln Hansaring toward Horrem	S13	Köln Messe/Deutz toward Troisdorf