Cologne Central Station
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Central railway station of Cologne, the 4th largest city of Germany
Key facts
- 1894
- rebuilt
- 1957
- rebuilt
- Location
- Innenstadt , Cologne , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
- Owned by
- Deutsche Bahn
- Operated by
- DB Netz DB Station&Service
- Lines
- Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed Cologne–Krefeld Cologne–Aachen West Rhine line Cologne–Duisburg Cologne–Sieg Cologne–Wuppertal
- Platforms
- 11 9 long distance and regional 2 S-Bahn 4 (2 stops) Stadtbahn
- Accessible
- Yes
- Ds100 code
- KK
- Fare zone
- VRS : 2100
- Website
- www.bahnhof.de
- Opened
- 5 December 1859 ; 166 years ago ( 1859-12-05 )
- Electrified
- 17 November 1958 ; 67 years ago ( 1958-11-17 ) , 15 kV 16 2⁄3 Hz AC system ( overhead )
- Previous names
- 1859-1894 Cöln Centralbahnhof, 1894-1919 Cöln Hauptbahnhof
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Köln Hbf
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Altstadt-Nord
- Elevation
- 58
- Owned by
- Deutsche Bahn
- Operator
- DB Station&Service
- Official website
- www.bahnhof.de/bahnhof-de/bahnhof/K-C3-B6ln-Hbf-1032796
- Image
- 00 0198 Köln - Hauptbahnhof, Kirche Sankt Mariä Himmelfahrt.jpg
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- Commons category
- Köln Hauptbahnhof
- adjacent station
- Frankfurt Airport long-distance station
- date of official opening
- 1859-01-01
- connecting line
- East Rhine Railway
- native label
- Köln Hauptbahnhof
- number of platform tracks
- 11
- daily patronage
- 280000
- street address
- Trankgasse 11, 50667 Köln
- IATA airport code
- QKL
- transport network
- Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
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Encyclopedic overview
Köln Hauptbahnhof (English: Cologne Central Station) is the central railway station of Cologne, Germany. The station is an important local, national and international transport hub, with many ICE, Eurostar 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cologne Central Station” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.