Cologne Central Station

Köln Hauptbahnhof
Separation station
Aerial view of the station in 2010
Location	Innenstadt, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	50°56′33″N 6°57′29″E / 50.94250°N 6.95806°E / 50.94250; 6.95806Coordinates: 50°56′33″N 6°57′29″E / 50.94250°N 6.95806°E / 50.94250; 6.95806
Line(s)	Cologne–Frankfurt HSL 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
Other information
Station code	3320
DS100 code	KK
IBNR	8000207
Category	1
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1859
Key dates
1894	rebuilt
1957	rebuilt
Traffic
Passengers	280,000

Cologne/Bonn Airport S-Bahn service
Köln Hansaring Köln Hbf Hohenzollern Bridge Köln Messe/Deutz Köln-Trimbornstraße Köln-Frankfurter Straße Köln-Airport Business Park Köln-Steinstraße Cologne/Bonn Airport Porz (Rhein) Porz-Wahn Spich Troisdorf Siegburg/Bonn

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

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

By 1850 there were five stations at Cologne that had been built by different railway companies. On the west bank of the Rhine there were the Bonn-Cologne Railway Company (German, old spelling: Bonn-Cölner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BCE), the Cologne-Krefeld Railway Company (German, old spelling: Cöln-Crefelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CCE) and the Rhenish Railway Company (German: Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE). On the east bank there were the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (German: Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BME) and the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German, old spelling: Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME).