Köln Messe/Deutz railway station

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Köln Messe/Deutz is a railway station in Cologne, Germany. It is situated next to the Rhine river and just several hundred metres away from Köln Hauptbahnhof, the city's main station.

Deutz station serves an important function in providing some relief for the Köln Hauptbahnhof bottleneck - some ICE services call at Köln-Deutz instead at Köln Hbf, eliminating the need for changing direction.

[edit] Operational usage

DB station codes
tracks 1 thru 8	KKDZ
tracks 9/10 (S-Bahn)	KKDZB
tracks 11/12 (Deutz (tief))	KKDZT

Köln-Deutz has several tracks, ten from east to west, and two from north to south. The north-south tracks, also referred to as Köln Messe/Deutz (tief), are situated under the east-west tracks, which connect the station to the main station via the Hohenzollern bridge. Usually services of all kind call at the station, but the situation is different in 2007, because Deutz(tief) is closed due to construction work on the tracks to Köln-Mülheim. Currently the only long-distance service calling at Köln-Deutz is Thalys, as Deutz is the final station before pulling into the Deutzerfeld marshalling yard. Connections to local traffic are provided by a subterranean Stadtbahn station.

[edit] See also

• Köln Hauptbahnhof

[edit] External links

• Google Maps satellite view

Previous station		Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn		Next station
Köln Hbf toward Köln-Nippes		S6		Köln Buchforst toward Essen Hbf
Köln Hbf toward Wuppertal-Vohwinkel		S11		Köln Buchforst toward Bergisch Gladbach
Köln Hbf toward Düren		S12		Köln Trimbornstrasse toward Au
Köln Hbf toward Horrem		S13		Köln Trimbornstrasse toward Troisdorf