Unkel station

Unkel
Former Unkel station building
Operations
Category 5
Type Through station
Platforms in use 3
DS100 code KUN
Construction and location
Opened 1870
Location Unkel
State Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Route information
List of railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate

Unkel station is a 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

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   DB AG   Following station
Bad Honnef (Rhein)
RE 8
Rhein-Erft-Express
Linz (Rhein)
Bad Honnef (Rhein)
RB 27
Rhein-Erft-Bahn
Erpel (Rhein)

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