Köln Hauptbahnhof
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Köln Hauptbahnhof
  
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Aerial view of the station in 2010
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| Location |
Innenstadt, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany |
| Coordinates | 50°56′33″N 6°57′29″E / 50.94250°N 6.95806°ECoordinates: 50°56′33″N 6°57′29″E / 50.94250°N 6.95806°E |
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| Platforms |
11 |
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| 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 | |
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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).
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