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NRW-Express

RE 1: NRW-Express
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Overview
Locale North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Technical
Line length 296 km (184 mi)
Operating speed 160 km/h (99 mph) (maximum)
Route number
  • 480 (Aachen–Köln)
  • 415 (Köln–Hamm)
  • 430 (Hamm–Warburg)
Route map
0 Aachen Hbf THA, ICE, IC
2 Aachen-Rothe Erde
6 Eilendorf (extra peak hour services only)
10 Stolberg (Rheinl) Hbf
13 Eschweiler Hbf
21 Langerwehe
31 Düren ICE, IC
52 Horrem
67 Köln-Ehrenfeld
70 Köln Hbf THA, ICE, IC
71 Köln Messe/Deutz ICE
75 Köln-Mülheim
83 Leverkusen Mitte
100 Düsseldorf-Benrath
110 Düsseldorf Hbf ICE, IC
117 Düsseldorf Flughafen ICE, IC
134 Duisburg Hbf ICE, IC
144 Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf IC
153 Essen Hbf ICE, IC
162 Wattenscheid
169 Bochum Hbf ICE, IC
187 Dortmund Hbf ICE, IC
193 Dortmund-Scharnhorst (not every hour)
197 Dortmund-Kurl
199 Kamen-Methler (non peak only)
203 Kamen
210 Nordbögge (not every hour)
218 Hamm (Westf) ICE, IC
243 Soest (until 2016) ICE, IC
264 Lippstadt (until 2016) ICE, IC
296 Paderborn Hbf (until 2016) ICE, IC
Source: German railway atlas

The NRW-Express is a Regional-Express service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), running from Aachen via Cologne, Düsseldorf, Essen and Dortmund to Hamm as line RE 1. The line is operated by DB Regio NRW.

The service has one of the highest levels of patronage in Germany with about 110,000 passengers per day, mainly commuters and students.

Today's NRW-Express replaced existing express services on individual sections of the route after the regionalisation of transport in Germany. A number of stations previously served by long-distance trains, such as Düsseldorf-Benrath and Wattenscheid came to be served by regional services only. The NRW-Express was first classified as Regionalschnellbahn ("regional fast train") RSB 1, then as StadtExpress ("city express") SE 1 and eventually as Regional-Express RE 1, when it was also given the name of NRW-Express.

The service originally operated on the Aachen–Bielefeld route and was composed of class 110 locomotives hauling six partly modernised Silberling carriages. If necessary, trains had an additional carriage. From the mid-90s, the trains were formed of non air-conditioned double-deck carriages and class 111 locomotives. Shortly later control cars were added, so that push–pull operations could be introduced. From 1998, air-conditioned double-deck carriages were introduced, but only after Expo 2000 in Hanover were all services of the NRW-Express operated with new air-conditioned carriages equipped to operate at 160 km/h. The sets were now mostly hauled by class 146 locomotives, which had originally been supplied for the Expo.


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