Köln-Buchforst is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

situated at Buchforst,

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

in western Germany. It is served by the S6 and S11 lines of the

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 ...

Location

The station is located in the north of Köln-Buchforst, next to the border with the district of Mülheim. Half a kilometre south-west of

Köln-Mülheim station Köln-Mülheim is a railway station situated at Mülheim, Cologne in western Germany. It is served by several regional trains, the S6 and S11 lines of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn and the 13 and 18 lines of Cologne Stadtbahn. History In the 19th c ...

, it serves to connect a densely populated part of the city of Cologne to the network of the

. The access to the station is located in Bertoldistraße where it passes under the railway. On both sides of the street there are stairs leading up to the central platform. The central platform is built at the S-Bahn standard height of 96 cm above the rail and is suitable for barrier-free access to the trains. A lift gives access from the street. The station has the usual amenities (seating, ticket vending machine) of modern S-Bahn stations. Nearly half of the platform is covered by a platform canopy. A special feature is located at each end of the platform. Since both platforms are on a curve, train dispatching is supported by video monitors. Video cameras monitor the areas of the platform edges and the train driver can watch the door-handle areas via three monitors. The station mainly serves to connect Buchforst with

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. Although Buchforst already was already connected by the

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to the city centre, only the S-Bahn connection enabled a direct connection to the Hauptbahnhof. The local distribution function of the station is also supported by buses, with the bus stop located directly under the station.

History

The S-Bahn station is quite new. The station was built with the construction of the Cologne S-Bahn line from

Mülheim Mülheim, officially Mülheim an der Ruhr () and also described as ''"City on the River"'', is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is located in the Ruhr Area between Duisburg, Essen, Oberhausen and Ratingen. It is home to many compa ...

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. For this purpose, the southern freight train (Köln-Kalk Nord/Mülheim–Köln-Deutzerfeld) was relaid and reduced to a single track. The station itself was built on the former Köln-Mülheim– Köln-Deutz (tief) line, which had been closed since the Second World War. The construction of the station was begun in 1986 and it was taken into operations on line S 11 for the summer 1990 timetable. In the summer of 1991, the complete commissioning of the main line followed with its extension to Düsseldorf. Since then line S 6 has also stopped in Köln-Buchforst.

Rail services

Dellbrück is served by line 11 of the

at 20-minute intervals from Monday to Friday and at 30-minute intervals on the weekend.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Koln-Buchforst Station Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations S6 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) S11 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Railway stations in Cologne Railway stations in Germany opened in 1990 Mülheim, Cologne