Sechtem station is a through station in the district of Sechtem of the town of Bornheim 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 States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

. It was opened on 1 March 1844 on the

Left Rhine line The West Rhine railway (German: ''Linke Rheinstrecke'', literally 'left (bank of the) Rhine route') is a famously picturesque, double-track electrified railway line running for 185 km from Cologne via Bonn, Koblenz, and Bingen to Mainz. It i ...

, which was opened between

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

and

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

by the

Bonn–Cologne Railway Company The Bonn–Cologne Railway Company (german: Bonn-Cölner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BCE) is a former German Railway company, founded in July 1837 in Bonn and granted a concession on 6 July 1840 to build and operate a railway line between Bonn and Col ...

on 15 February 1844. It has three platform tracks and it is classified by

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 se ...

as a category 5 station. The station is served by the following two lines: It is also served by bus route 818, operated by ''Regionalverkehr Köln'' at 60-minute intervals.

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Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia Railway stations in Germany opened in 1844 1844 establishments in Prussia Buildings and structures in Rhein-Sieg-Kreis {{NorthRhineWestphalia-railstation-stub