Düsseldorf Airport station
Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen | |
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| Location |
Ahrensplatz 1 40474 Düsseldorf[1] Lohausen, Düsseldorf, NRW Germany |
| Coordinates | 51°17′30″N 6°47′11″E / 51.29167°N 6.78639°ECoordinates: 51°17′30″N 6°47′11″E / 51.29167°N 6.78639°E |
| Line(s) | Cologne–Duisburg line S 1 |
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| Station code | 1400 |
| DS100 code | KDFF (long-distance) KDFFH (S-Bahn) |
| Category | 2[2] |
| History | |
| Opened | 26 May 2000 |
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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.
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 station is served by the following services:[7]
- High speed services (Thalys) Paris - Brussels - Cologne - Düsseldorf - Essen
- Intercity Express services (ICE 10) Cologne/Bonn Airport - Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Dortmund - Hamm - Bielefeld - Hannover - Berlin
- Intercity Express services (ICE 41) Dortmund - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Frankfurt - Würzburg - Nürnberg - Munich
- Intercity Express services (ICE 43) Dortmund - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Frankfurt - Karlsruhe - Freiburg - Basel
- Intercity Express services (ICE 50) Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Dortmund - Hamm - Paderborn - Kassel - Erfurt - Leipzig - Dresden
- Intercity services (IC 50) Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Dortmund - Hamm - Paderborn - Kassel - Erfurt - Leipzig
- Regional services RE 1 NRW-Express Aachen - Cologne - Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Dortmund - Hamm - Paderborn
- Regional services RE 2 Westfalen-Express Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Dortmund - Hamm - Bielefeld - Minden
- Regional services RE 3 Rhein-Emscher-Express Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Gelsenkirchen - Dortmund - Hamm
- Regional services RE 5 Rhein-Express Emmerich - Wesel - Oberhausen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz
- Regional services RE 6 Rhein-Haard-Express Münster - Dülmen - Recklinghausen - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf
- Local services RB 35 Der Weseler Emmerich - Wesel - Oberhausen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf (Peak hours only, Monday to Friday)
- Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn services S 1 Dortmund - Bochum - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Solingen
| Preceding station | Thalys | Following station | ||
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Düsseldorf Hbf
toward Paris Nord | Thalys | Duisburg Hbf
toward Essen Hbf |
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| Preceding station | Deutsche Bahn | Following station | ||
| ICE 10 | towards Berlin Ost |
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towards Munich Hbf | ICE 41 | towards Dortmund Hbf |
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towards Basel SBB | ICE 43 | towards Basel SBB |
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Terminus | ICE 50 | towards Dresden Hbf |
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Terminus | IC 50 | towards Leipzig Hbf |
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toward Aachen Hbf | RE 1 NRW-Express | toward Paderborn Hbf |
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Terminus | RE 2 Rhein-Haard-Express | toward Münster Hbf |
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toward Emmerich | RE 5 Rhein-Express | toward Koblenz Hbf |
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Terminus | RE 6 Westfalen-Express | toward Minden |
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| RB 35 Der Weseler | toward Emmerich |
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| Preceding station | eurobahn | Following station | ||
Terminus | RE 3 Rhein-Emscher-Express | toward Hamm |
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| Preceding station | Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn | Following station | ||
toward Solingen Hbf | S 1 | Angermund toward Dortmund Hbf |
Notes
- ↑ at bahnhof.de
- ↑ "Stationspreisliste 2015" [Station price list 2015] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ↑ "Answer to parliamentary questions from Winfried Hermann, Dr. Anton Hofreiter, Peter Hettlich, and other of the BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN group – printed matter 16/7104" (PDF). Records 16/7371 (in German). Deutscher Bundestag. 29 November 2007. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ↑ Düsseldorf Year Book (in German) 72. Düsseldorf: Droste. 2001. p. 246. ISBN 3-7700-3047-8.
- ↑ "Neuer Flughafenbahnhof Düsseldorf". Eisenbahn-Revue International (in German) (6): 243. 2000. ISSN 1421-2811.
- ↑ "Sky-Train in Düsseldorf". Eisenbahn-Revue International (in German) (10): 447. 2002. ISSN 1421-2811.
- ↑ Timetables for Düsseldorf Flughafen station (German)
References
- Sven Anderson (1999). "Zur Problematik des Fernbahnhofs Düsseldorf Flughafen". Eisenbahn-Revue International (in German) (7): 274–279. ISSN 1421-2811.
- Sven Anderson (2001). "Planung und Realität des neuen Flughafen-Fernbahnhofs in Düsseldorf". Eisenbahn-Revue International (in German) (3): 137–139. ISSN 1421-2811.
External links
- stationairport.de convention centre (German) (English)
- "Düsseldorf Flughafen station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- "Düsseldorf Flughafen station area (KDFF) operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- "Düsseldorf Flughafen station area (KDFFH) operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- 360° panorama of the station