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Rhein-Erft-Bahn

RE 8: Rhein-Erft-Express
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Overview
Locale North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Technical
Line length 156 km (97 mi)
Route number 465
Route map
0 Mönchengladbach Hbf ICE, IC
4 Rheydt Hbf IC
7 Rheydt-Odenkirchen
12 Hochneukirch
15 Jüchen
22 Grevenbroich
33 Rommerskirchen
38 Stommeln
42 Pulheim
52 Köln-Ehrenfeld
55 Cologne Hbf THA, ICE, IC
57 Köln Messe/Deutz ICE
71 Cologne/Bonn Airport ICE
Porz (Rhein) (until June 2004)
75 Porz-Wahn (until June 2004)
82 Troisdorf
87 Menden (Rheinl)
92 Bonn-Beuel
95 Bonn-Oberkassel
98 Niederdollendorf
100 Königswinter
102 Rhöndorf
104 Bad Honnef (Rhein)
109 Unkel
115 Linz (Rhein)
121 Bad Hönningen
137 Neuwied
142 Engers
148 Vallendar
152 Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein
156 Koblenz Hbf ICE, IC
Source: German railway atlas

The Rhein-Erft-Express is a Regional-Express service in the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. It is numbered as line RE 8 and connects the cities of Mönchengladbach, Cologne, Bonn and Koblenz Hauptbahnhof with each other and their surroundings, running hourly. From Monday to Friday it is complemented by a Regionalbahn stopping service, the Rhein-Erft-Bahn (RB 27), running between Rommerskirchen (in the rush hour Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof) and Koblenz Hauptbahnhof. On weekends it stops at some additional stations between Cologne Hbf and Koblenz Hbf.

The Rhine-Erft-Express runs from Mönchengladbach via the Cologne–Mönchengladbach line to Cologne, where it stops, despite its classification as a Regional-Express, at all stations. Near Grevenbroich it crosses the Erft river. In Cologne, it crosses the Rhine on the Hohenzollern Bridge and runs on the eastern bank via the airport loop to Troisdorf, where it runs on to the Right Rhine line. Between Menden and Unkel it stops at all stations. Trains cross the Horchheim Railway Bridge over the Rhine to Koblenz Hauptbahnhof.

The Rhine-Erft Express is funded jointly by three transport associations: the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (Rhine-Ruhr transport association, VRR), which includes the Mönchengladbach–Rommerskirchen section, the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (Rhine-Sieg transport association, VRS), which includes the Stommeln–Bad Honnef section and the Rhineland-Palatinate Zweckverband SPNV-Nord (regional rail transport “purpose association” North).


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