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Rhein-Express

RE 5: Rhein-Express
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Overview
Locale North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Technical
Line length 226 km (140 mi)
Operating speed 160 km/h (99 mph) (maximum)
Route number
  • 420 (Emmerich–Duisburg)
  • 415 (Duisburg–Cologne)
  • 470 (Cologne–Koblenz)
Route map
0 Emmerich (until 2016)
6 Praest (until 2016)
10 Millingen (b Rees) (until 2016)
12 Empel-Rees (until 2016)
16 Haldern (Rheinl) (until 2016)
19 Mehrhoog railway station (until 2016)
32 Wesel-Feldmark (until 2016)
0 034 Wesel
3 037
Friedrichsfeld (Niederrhein)
(every two hours)
8 042' Voerde (Niederrhein)
13 047 Dinslaken
19 053
Oberhausen-Holten
(every two hours)
23 057 Oberhausen-Sterkrade
27 061 Oberhausen Hbf ICE, IC
35 069 Duisburg Hbf ICE, EC, IC
52 086 Düsseldorf Flughafen ICE, IC
59 093 Düsseldorf Hbf ICE, EC, IC
69 103 Düsseldorf-Benrath
86 120 Leverkusen Mitte
94 128 Köln-Mülheim
98 132 Köln Messe/Deutz ICE
99 133 Cologne Hbf THA, ICE, EC, IC
104 138 Köln Süd
115 149 Brühl
133 167 Bonn Hbf ICE, EC, IC
140 174 Bonn-Bad Godesberg
NRW / RLP state border
149 183 Oberwinter
153 187 Remagen EC, IC
157 191 Sinzig (Rhein)
163 197 Bad Breisig
174 208 Andernach ICE, EC, IC
191 225 Koblenz Stadtmitte
192 226 Koblenz Hbf ICE, EC, IC
Source: German railway atlas

The Rhein-Express is a Regional-Express (RE 5) service, which generally follows the Rhine (German: Rhein) river. It runs daily every hour from 5 am to 9 pm from Wesel via Oberhausen, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Remagen and Andernach to Koblenz, in the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. It is the fourth-most used regional express line in the VRR network with approximately 48,000 passengers a day.

Until the timetable change in December 2016, the Rhein-Express ran to/from Emmerich. Operations on this section and the additional services provided by Regionalbahn service RB 35 (Der Weseler) have since been operated as part of the Rhein-IJssel-Express (RE 19).

The Rhein-Express was established in 1998 with the introduction of the integrated regular interval timetable in North Rhine-Westphalia (called NRW-Takt) by combining two services that previously started or finished in Cologne. Originally, the RE 5 service stopped at almost all intermediate stations, as if it were a Regionalbahn service.

In December 2002, several intermediate stops and all overtaking by long-distance trains were eliminated, and the scheduled top speed was increased to 160 km/h, shortening the journey time by over 30 minutes between Cologne and Koblenz. The acceleration and the simultaneous thinning of services between Emmerich and Wesel reduced the number of sets of vehicles that was required for the circulation from nine to seven.


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