Düsseldorf Airport station

Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen
Platforms
Operations
Category 2[1]
Type Bf
DS100 code KDFF (long-distance)
KDFFH (S-Bahn)
Station code 1400
Construction and location
Opened 26 May 2000
Location Düsseldorf
State NRW
Country Germany
Local authority Lohausen
Ahrensplatz 1
40474 Düsseldorf[2]
Route information

Cologne–Duisburg line S 1

List of railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
Düsseldorf Airport S-Bahn service
Duisburg Hbf
Duisburg-Rahm
Düsseldorf-Angermund
Düsseldorf Airport
SkyTrain Parkhaus 4
SkyTrain Terminal A/B
SkyTrain Terminal C
Düsseldorf Airport Terminal C
Düsseldorf-Unterrath
Düsseldorf-Derendorf
Düsseldorf Zoo
Düsseldorf-Wehrhahn
Düsseldorf Hbf

Düsseldorf Airport (Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen) is a railway station in Düsseldorf, Germany on the Cologne–Duisburg line that connects Düsseldorf International Airport to Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte and long-distance trains, most of them ICE trains. Opened in May 2000, the new railway station has the capacity of 300 train departures per day.

Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen is not to be confused with the Düsseldorf Airport Terminal station which is an S-Bahn station under Terminal C.

Contents

History

The federal government provided € 14.6 million towards the construction of Düsseldorf Airport station.[3] It was inaugurated on 26 May 2000, in the presence of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, Wolfgang Clement.[4] The station cost DM 125 million to build and went into operation on 28 May 2000.[5]

On 1 July 2002, the SkyTrain was opened. The track is 2.5 km long and 23 m high. After the commissioning of the SkyTrain had been delayed by a year due to software problems, the train stopped operations six times in the first two weeks of public operations and was then closed to 26 August.[6]

Current operations

Up to 300 trains stop here each day. It consists of a mainline station and an S-Bahn station, which share an entrance building. The mainline station has two platform tracks and in between there are two through tracks, running in each direction. These through tracks for trains not stopping at the station allow operations at speeds of up to 200 km/h. The S-Bahn station lies to the west of the mainline station and also has two platform tracks. The SkyTrain station is further to the west.

Train services

The following services currently call at Düsseldorf Flughafen (list not complete):

Series Operator Route Material Frequency Notes
ICE10 DB Berlin Ostbahnhof - Berlin Hbf - Berlin-Spandau - Wolfsburg Hbf - Hannover Hbf - Bielefeld Hbf - Hamm - Dortmund Hbf - Bochum Hbf - Essen Hbf - Duisburg Hbf - Düsseldorf Flughafen - Düsseldorf Hbf - Köln Messe/Deutz - Köln/Bonn Flughafen ICE 1 1x per hour
IC35 DB Norddeich Mole - Norddeich - Norden - Emden Hbf - Leer - Papenburg - Meppen - Lingen (Ems) - Rheine - Münster Hbf - Recklinghausen Hbf - Wanne-Eickel Hbf - Gelsenkirchen Hbf - Oberhausen Hbf - Duisburg Hbf - Düsseldorf Flughafen - Düsseldorf Hbf - Köln Hbf - Bonn Hbf - Remagen - Andernach - Koblenz Hbf - Cochem - Bullay - Wittlich Hbf - Trier Hbf - Wasserbillig - Luxembourg DB Class 101, DB Class 120 and IC stock Every 2 Hours
RB35 Der Weseler DB Regio Emmerich - Praest - Millingen - Empel-Rees - Haldern - Mehrhoog - Wesel-Feldmark - Wesel - Friedrichsfeld - Voerde - Dinslaken - Oberhausen-Holten - Oberhausen-Sterkrade - Oberhausen Hbf - Duisburg Hbf - Düsseldorf Flughafen - Düsseldorf Hbf DB Class 425, DB Class 110 + Coaching Stock 1x per hour Peak Times only (Monday - Friday)
Preceding station   DB AG   Following station
ICE 10
IC/EC 35
toward Emden Außenhafen or Norddeich Mole
toward Köln Hbf
IC 51
toward Aachen Hbf
RE 1
NRW-Express
Terminus
RE 2
Rhein-Haard-Express
toward Emmerich
RE 5
Rhein-Express
Terminus
RE 6
Westfalen-Express
toward Minden
RB 35
Der Weseler
toward Emmerich
Preceding station   eurobahn   Following station
Terminus
RE 3
Rhein-Emscher-Express
toward Hamm
Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
S1

Notes

  1. ^ German railway station categories 2010
  2. ^ Düsseldorf Flughafen at bahnhof.de
  3. ^ "Answer to parliamnetary questions from Winfried Hermann, Dr. Anton Hofreiter, Peter Hettlich, and other of the BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN group – printed matter 16/7104" (in German). Records 16/7371. Deutscher Bundestag. 29 November 2007. http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/16/073/1607371.pdf. Retrieved 18 September 2011. 
  4. ^ (in German) Düsseldorf Year Book. 72. Düsseldorf: Droste. 2001. p. 246. ISBN 3-7700-3047-8. 
  5. ^ "Neuer Flughafenbahnhof Düsseldorf" (in German). Eisenbahn-Revue International (6): 243. 2000. 
  6. ^ "Sky-Train in Düsseldorf" (in German). Eisenbahn-Revue International (10): 447. 2002. 

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