Köln Hansaring station

Köln Hansaring
Junction station
Köln Hansaring S-Bahn station
Location	Hansaring 80, 50670, Innenstadt, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	50°56′57″N 6°57′09″E / 50.9491°N 6.9526°E / 50.9491; 6.9526Coordinates: 50°56′57″N 6°57′09″E / 50.9491°N 6.9526°E / 50.9491; 6.9526
Line(s)	Cologne–Aachen Cologne–Krefeld
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	3331
DS100 code	KKHR, KKHRW
IBNR	8003392
Category	4
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1990
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Terminus RB 25 Oberbergische Bahn Köln Hbf toward Meinerzhagen Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station Köln-Nippes Terminus S 6 Köln Hbf toward Essen Hbf Köln-Nippes toward Düsseldorf Flughafen Terminal S 11 Köln Hbf toward Bergisch Gladbach Köln-Ehrenfeld toward Horrem S 12 Köln Hbf toward Au (Sieg) Köln-Ehrenfeld toward Düren S 13 Köln Hbf toward Troisdorf Köln-Ehrenfeld toward Düren S 19 Köln Hbf toward Au (Sieg) Preceding station   KVB   Following station Christophstraße/Mediapark toward Zollstock Südfriedhof 12 Ebertplatz toward Merkenich Christophstraße/Mediapark toward Ubierring 15 Ebertplatz toward Chorweiler

Köln Hansaring railway station is situated in the city of Cologne in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, about one kilometre northwest of Köln Hauptbahnhof.

A few hundred metres west of the station is the Betriebsbahnhof Köln Hansaring Wendeanlage (Köln Hansaring operations station reversing facility). At the station Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 11 branches off towards Neuss Hauptbahnhof via Köln-Nippes station and Köln-Chorweiler on the Lower Left Rhine Railway from S-Bahn line S 12, which runs parallel to the Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway to Düren via Köln-Ehrenfeld and Köln-Weiden West station.

The station (which is classified as a Haltepunkt, that is a "halt", which is defined as having no set of points) and the operating station together form the western end of the trunk line of the Cologne S-Bahn (which is operated as part of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn). It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. The S-Bahn trains stop here on an island platform, which has a length of 145 metres.

A large part of the platform is located on a bridge over a street called Hansaring. There is a covered connection between the Hansaring S-Bahn station and the Hansaring station of the Cologne Stadtbahn in the median strip of the Hansaring.

Köln Hansaring station has a long rail history. As early as 1859, the new connection between the West Rhine Railway (Linke Rheinstrecke) and Cologne Central Station crossed the medieval city walls at this point. In 1881 the city walls were demolished and replaced by a wide ring road, which was called the Hansaring (Hansa Ring) in reference to Cologne’s past as a Hanseatic city. With the construction of the new main station, the railway tracks were raised by six metres from 1889. There was already at that time a horse tramway on the Hansaring, which was replaced by an electric tramway in 1903.