Köln-Chorweiler station

Bahnhof Köln-Chorweiler
Through station
Köln-Chorweiler station
Location	Liverpooler Platz 50769 Köln Chorweiler, Cologne, NRW Germany
Coordinates	51°01′16″N 6°53′53″E / 51.0212°N 6.8981°E / 51.0212; 6.8981Coordinates: 51°01′16″N 6°53′53″E / 51.0212°N 6.8981°E / 51.0212; 6.8981
Other information
Station code	3326
DS100 code	KKC
Category	3
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 June 1975

Köln-Chorweiler is a combined subway and railway station situated at Chorweiler, Cologne in western Germany. It is served by the S11 line of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn and line 15 of Cologne Stadtbahn. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.

The genesis of the joint Stadtbahn and S-Bahn station and the railway lines on which it lies, is closely linked to the development of a large housing estate of Chorweiler. Both the S-Bahn line, a loop from the Cologne–Neuss railway, as well as the Stadtbahn line, an extension of the line to Longerich, were built before the actual start of construction of the estate on a green-field site. The staggered start-up was based on the progress of construction of the residential buildings: the former tram line 9 operated to Chorweiler from 17 November 1973, while the S-Bahn line S11 ran to Chorweiler from 1 June 1975 and was extended to Chorweiler Nord on 22 May 1977.

The S-Bahn station consists of a 210 m long hall that is supported longitudinally by two rows of columns. On the west side, the two S-Bahn tracks run between two side platforms. The eastern platform is much wider and the Stadtbahn track stops on the opposite side of the platform from the S-Bahn. There is another track without a platform behind the Stadtbahn platform track that was formerly used as part of a turning loop. The S-Bahn facilities are largely unchanged since their commissioning, while the Stadtbahn station has been rebuilt several times. The station is served by line 11 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn at 20-minute intervals from Monday to Friday and at 30-minute intervals on the weekend.

At the inauguration of Chorweiler Stadtbahn station, it was operated by line 9 (then running Chorweiler–Ebertplatz–Neumarkt–Severinsbrücke–Königsforst) with Duewag articulated trams. Incoming trains first ran through the turning loop before stopping at the platform. Since the infrastructure was designed for high-floor Stadtbahn vehicles, the tracks were raised by the insertion of half a metre of additional gravel.