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Rhein-Sieg-Express

RE 9: Rhein-Sieg-Express
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Overview
Locale North Rhine-Westphalia
Technical
Line length 171 km (106 mi)
Operating speed 140 km/h (87 mph) (maximum)
Route number
  • 480 (Aachen–Cologne)
  • 460 (Cologne–Siegen)
Route map
0 Aachen Hbf THA, ICE
2 Aachen-Rothe Erde
Eilendorf (until 12/2009)
10 Stolberg (Rheinl) Hbf
13 Eschweiler Hbf
Nothberg (until 12/2009)
21 Langerwehe
31 Düren
52 Horrem
67 Köln-Ehrenfeld
70 Köln Hbf THA, ICE, IC
71 Köln Messe/Deutz ICE
80 Porz (Rhein) (since 12/2010)
90 Troisdorf
95 Siegburg/Bonn ICE
102 Hennef (Sieg)
114 Eitorf
121 Herchen
129 Schladern (Sieg)
136 Au (Sieg)
NRW / RLP border
142 Wissen (Sieg)
154 Betzdorf (Sieg)
156 Kirchen
165 Niederschelden
RLP / NRW border
171 Siegen (last station since 12/2010)
NRW / Hesse border
196 Haiger
203 Dillenburg
209 Herborn (Dillkr)
232 Wetzlar
244 Gießen IC
Source: German railway atlas

The Rhein-Sieg-Express is a Regional-Express service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate running from Aachen via Düren, Cologne, Troisdorf, Siegburg and Betzdorf to Siegen. It is operated by DB Regio NRW.

Regional Express (RE) line 9 has existed since the introduction of the integrated timetable (German: integralen Taktfahrplan, ITF) in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1998. Previously one train ran each day over the line to Mönchengladbach from Gießen to Kaldenkirchen.

From 1998 the train service ran on the route from Krefeld via Neuss, Cologne, Siegburg and Siegen to Gießen. The service used old rolling stock, consisting of class 111 locomotives hauling five double-deck carriages. At the introduction of the next stage of the integrated timetable (ITF2) in December 2002, the line was the most vulnerable to delay in North Rhine-Westphalia. The causes of these delays were the single track sections of the Sieg Railway, work in connection with the completion of the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed line and the upgrading of the Sieg Railway for S-Bahn operations, speed restrictions between Cologne and Krefeld and a very short turnaround time in Krefeld of 12 minutes.


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