Hennef (Sieg) Station
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Hennef (Sieg) station is located on the Sieg Railway in the town of
Hennef (Sieg) 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. distric ...
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 ...
. It was opened in 1859 for passenger and freight traffic 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 ...
along with the Sieg Railway.


Station building

The listed building station building was opened in 1859 by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company and has been privately owned since 2004. The station has a
Deutsche Bahn The (; abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). The Federal Republic of Germany is its single shareholder. describes itself as the ...
ticket counter, a bar and a fast food restaurant. Next to the station there is a parking garage.


Platforms

The station has a side and a central platform serviced by three tracks for passenger trains. They have lifts and are free of barriers for the disabled. The disused track four has no platform.


Train services

The station is served by the
Rhein-Sieg-Express The Rhein-Sieg-Express is a Regional-Express service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate running from Aachen via Düren, Cologne, Troisdorf, Siegburg and Betzdorf to Siegen. It is operated by DB Regio NRW. Histor ...
(RE 9) every hour. In the morning peak hour two extra RE 9 services run to Cologne and in the afternoon peak hour two extra RE 9 services run to
Siegen Siegen () is a city in Germany, in the south Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly sho ...
. It is also 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 ci ...
service S12 every twenty or forty minutes towards
Köln-Ehrenfeld Ehrenfeld ( ; ) is a borough ('' Stadtbezirk'') of the City of Cologne in Germany. It includes the seven quarters Bickendorf, Bocklemünd, Mengenich, Ehrenfeld, Neuehrenfeld, Ossendorf and Vogelsang. It has about 109,500 inhabitants (as of Dec ...
(
Horrem Kerpen (; Ripuarian: ''Kerpe'') is the most populated town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). It is located about 20 kilometres southwest from Cologne. Division of the town The town of Kerpen was created in 1975, whe ...
in the peak) and every hour towards Au (Sieg) and the S19 service between
Düren Düren (; ripuarian: Düre) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between Aachen and Cologne on the river Rur. History Roman era The area of Düren was part of Gallia Belgica, more specifically the territory of the Eburones, a people ...
and Herchen or Au (Sieg) hourly. The S12 and S19 services provide a service every 20 minutes on weekdays. On the weekend, the S12 operates every 30 minutes between Köln-Ehrenfeld and Au (Sieg) and the S19 operates hourly between Düren and Hennef, providing three services an hour on the weekend towards Cologne. Freight trains rarely operate through the station. All passenger trains running through the station are operated by
DB Regio DB Regio AG is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn which operates regional and commuter train services in Germany. DB Regio AG, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. It is a 100% subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn Group and there part of the DB Regio bus ...
Rheinland. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn since January 2011 as a category 4 station.


Notes

{{Reflist Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations S12 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Railway stations in Germany opened in 1859 Buildings and structures in Rhein-Sieg-Kreis