Köln Hansaring station

Köln Hansaring
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Köln Hansaring S-Bahn station
Location	Hansaring 80, 50670, Innenstadt, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	50°56′57″N 6°57′09″E / 50.9491°N 6.9526°ECoordinates: 50°56′57″N 6°57′09″E / 50.9491°N 6.9526°E
Line(s)	Cologne–Aachen Cologne–Krefeld
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	3331
DS100 code	KKHR, KKHRW[1]
IBNR	8003392
Category	4[2]
History
Opened	1990 [3]
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Terminus RB 25 Oberbergische Bahn Cologne Hbf toward Meinerzhagen Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station Köln-Nippes Terminus S 6 Cologne Hbf toward Essen Hbf Köln-Nippes toward Düsseldorf Flughafen Terminal S 11 Cologne Hbf toward Bergisch Gladbach Köln-Ehrenfeld toward Düren S 12 Cologne Hbf toward Au (Sieg) Terminus S 13 Cologne Hbf toward Troisdorf Köln-Ehrenfeld toward Horrem S 13 peak hours only Preceding station   KVB   Following station Christophstraße/Mediapark toward Zollstock Südfriedhof 12 Ebertplatz toward Merkenich Christophstraße/Mediapark toward Ubierring 15 Ebertplatz toward Chorweiler

Northern access to the Stadtbahn station under the railway bridge

Köln-Hansaring station

Stadtbahn platforms

Köln Hansaring railway station is situated in the city of Cologne in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia,^[4] about one kilometre northwest of Köln Hauptbahnhof.

A few hundred metres west of the station is the Betriebsbahnhof Köln Hansaring Wendeanlage (Köln Hansaring operations station reversing facility). At the station Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 11 branches off towards Neuss Hauptbahnhof via Köln-Nippes station and Köln-Chorweiler on the Lower Left Rhine Railway from S-Bahn line S 12, which runs parallel to the Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway to Düren via Köln-Ehrenfeld and Köln-Weiden West station.

The station (which is classified as a Haltepunkt, that is a “halt”, which is defined as having no set of points) and the operating station together form the western end of the trunk line of the Cologne S-Bahn (which is operated as part of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn). It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.^[2] The S-Bahn trains stop here on an island platform, which has a length of 145 metres.

A large part of the platform is located on a bridge over a street called Hansaring. There is a covered connection between the Hansaring S-Bahn station and the Hansaring station of the Cologne Stadtbahn in the median strip of the Hansaring.

History

Köln Hansaring station has a long rail history. As early as 1859, the new connection between the West Rhine Railway (Linke Rheinstrecke) and Cologne Central Station crossed the medieval city walls at this point. In 1881 the city walls were demolished and replaced by a wide ring road, which was called the Hansaring (Hansa Ring) in reference to Cologne’s past as a Hanseatic city. With the construction of the new main station, the railway tracks were raised by six metres from 1889. There was already at that time a horse tramway on the Hansaring, which was replaced by an electric tramway in 1903.

In the early 1970s, the Hansaring Stadtbahn tunnel was built and an underground station was opened to traffic at a shallow depth on 25 August 1974. New tracks were built for the S-Bahn on the north side of the existing railway line. The S-Bahn station was connected to the Stadtbahn station and the Stadtbahn station was rebuilt with a high platform for two-thirds of its length. The station was inaugurated on 27 May 1990.^[3] At Easter 2003, half of the high platform was reduced in height so that it could be used by coupled low-floor vehicles on the Stadtbahn ring route.

Rail services

Köln Hansaring station is served by the following regional services:^[5]

Line	Route	Frequency
S 6	Köln-Nippes – Köln Hansaring – Köln Hauptbahnhof – Leverkusen – Langenfeld – Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof – Essen	20 min
S 11	Duesseldorf – Neuss Hauptbahnhof – Dormagen – Köln-Chorweiler – Köln-Nippes – Cologne Hansaring – Köln Hauptbahnhof – Bergisch Gladbach	20 min
S 12	Düren – Horrem – Cologne-Ehrenfeld – Köln Hansaring – Köln Hauptbahnhof – Porz (Rhein) – Troisdorf – Siegburg/Bonn – Hennef – Au (Sieg)	20 min
S 13	(Horrem – Köln -Ehrenfeld –) Köln Hansaring – Köln Hauptbahnhof – Cologne/Bonn Airport – Troisdorf	20 Min
RB 25	Köln Hansaring – Köln Hauptbahnhof – Roesrath - Honrath - Overath - Engelskirchen - Gummersbach – Marienheide - Meinerzhagen	30 min (every 30 min to Overath) (in the rush hour every 30 min to Engelskirchen) (always every 60 min to Meinerzhagen)

Stadtbahn trains

The station is served by the following Stadtbahn services:^[5]

Line	Route	Frequency
12	Merkenich – Niehl – Nippes – Ebertplatz – Hansaring – Friesenplatz – Barbarossaplatz – Zollstock	10 min
15	Chorweiler – Longerich – Nippes – Ebertplatz – Hansaring – Friesenplatz – Barbarossaplatz – Ubierring	10 min^1

¹In the peak hour every 5 minutes between Longerich and Ubierring

Notes

1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
2. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
3. "Köln Hansaring operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
4. "Track plan of Köln Hansaring" (PDF-file; 186 kB) (in German). DB Netz. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
5. "Köln Hansaring station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 June 2013.

External links

• "Information on the Stadtbahn station" (in German). Cologne Stadtbahn. Retrieved 1 July 2013.