Unkel station

Unkel
Through station

Former Unkel station building
Location Unkel, Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany
Coordinates 50°36′13.2″N 7°13′10.2″E / 50.603667°N 7.219500°E / 50.603667; 7.219500Coordinates: 50°36′13.2″N 7°13′10.2″E / 50.603667°N 7.219500°E / 50.603667; 7.219500
Line(s)
Platforms 3
Other information
Station code 6334
DS100 codeKUN
Category5 [1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 1870

Unkel station is on the East Rhine Railway (German: Rechte Rheinstrecke) and is the only station in the town of Unkel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was built in 1870. The station has three platform tracks on two platforms. The regional rail services are organised by the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (Rhine-Sieg transport association, VRS). The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]

History

Unkel station with the former station building

After the West Rhine Railway was completed in 1858, the Rhenish Railway Company (Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) began construction of the East Rhine line from Beuel to Neuwied. There was some discussion of the need for stations between Honnef and Linz. Erpel, Rheinbreitbach and Unkel each wanted its own station. The railway company originally did want to build a station. After protests from the mayor and the district administrator stations were built, first at Unkel and later at Erpel.

In the summer of 2006, the station building was closed after the station bar was abandoned. Weather-protected seating was built on the platform on the line to Koblenz as a replacement for the closed waiting room.

Services

Line Service Route Frequency
RE 8 Rhein-Erft-Express Mönchengladbach Rheydt Cologne Köln/Bonn Flughafen Troisdorf Bonn-Beuel Unkel Linz (Rhein) - Neuwied - Koblenz Hourly
RB 27 Rhein-Erft-Bahn (Mönchengladbach – Rheydt –) Cologne – Troisdorf – Bonn-Beuel Unkel – Linz (Rhein) - Neuwied - Koblenz Hourly
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
Bad Honnef (Rhein)
RE 8
Rhein-Erft-Express
Linz (Rhein)
toward Koblenz Hbf
Bad Honnef (Rhein)
RB 27
Rhein-Erft-Bahn
Erpel (Rhein)
toward Koblenz Hbf

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
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