Blankenberg (Sieg) Station
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Blankenberg (Sieg) station is a through station in the town of
Hennef Hennef (Sieg) () is a town in the Rhein-Sieg district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the river Sieg, approx. south-east of Siegburg and east of Bonn. Hennef is the fourth-biggest town in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (i.e. distr ...
in the German state of
North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...
. The station was opened in 1860/61 on a section of the
Sieg Railway The Sieg Railway (german: Siegstrecke is a long, electrified German main line railway between Cologne-Deutz via Porz, Troisdorf, Siegburg, Hennef, Au (Sieg), Betzdorf to Siegen with a through service to Cologne Hauptbahnhof. Although most of ...
, opened by the
Cologne-Minden Railway Company The Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German, old spelling: ''Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', ''CME'') was along with the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company and the Rhenish Railway Company one of the railway companies that in the mid-19th ...
(german: Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, ''CME'') between Hennef (Sieg) and
Eitorf Eitorf is a municipality in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the river Sieg, approx. 25 km east of Bonn city. History Early History The area encompassing Eitorf was originally inhabited by the ...
on 1 August 1860. It has two platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station. The station is served by
Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn The Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr) is a polycentric and electrically driven S-train network covering the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region in the German federated state of North Rhine-Westphalia. This includes most of the Ruhr (and ...
line S12 between Düren and Au (Sieg) hourly. Seven services each way of S19 start or finish in Blankenberg in the peaks. Other S19 services starting or finishing in Herchen or Au pass through without stopping.


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Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations S12 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Railway stations in Germany opened in 1860 Buildings and structures in Rhein-Sieg-Kreis {{RhineRuhr-SBahn-stub