Remagen station is 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 ...

(german: Linke Rheinstrecke) in the city of

Remagen Remagen ( ) is a town in Germany in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, in the district of Ahrweiler. It is about a one-hour drive from Cologne, just south of Bonn, the former West German capital. It is situated on the left (western) bank of the ...

in the German state of

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. The station is served by regular regional services as well as

Intercity InterCity (commonly abbreviated ''IC'' on timetables and tickets) is the classification applied to certain long-distance passenger train services in Europe. Such trains (in contrast to regional, local, or commuter trains) generally call at m ...

and EuroCity services. It is also the starting point of the

Ahr Valley Railway The Ahr Valley Railway (german: Ahrtalbahn), Remagen–Ahrbrück, is currently a 29 km-long, partly single-track and non-electrified branch line, which runs through the Ahr valley from Remagen via Ahrweiler and Dernau to Ahrbrück in the German ...

(''Ahrtalbahn'').

History

The Left Rhine line from Cologne to Bonn was extended to Rolandseck in 1856 and through Remagen to Koblenz in 1858. The Remagen station building was built in 1860. It has been the beginning and end of the Ahr Valley Railway since 17 September 1880. The station was rehabilitated in the 1930s. Further renovation work was carried out in 2007 and 2008. It has been served by the private railway company trans regio since 14 December 2008.

Structure

Remagen station has an entrance building, in which a DB ticket office and ticket machines are located. There are food vending machines on platform tracks 2 and 3 and in the reception building. In the course of renovation work in 2008, the platform roofs were renewed and new LCD destination displays were erected. Each platform has a lift, making them accessible for wheelchairs. Platform track 5 is used only for the Ahr Valley Railway, operated as the ''Rhein-Ahr-Bahn'' towards Ahrbrück. A special feature is the station’s cast-iron portico, which is not anchored to the building, but rather stands on its own. The station hall was originally in Bonn and it was removed during the construction of Bonn railway station in 1883/84 and re-erected in Remagen. The hall is thus older than the station itself. Since 21 March 2009, Remagen station has had a DB service store with access from the main platform and the station building.

Operations

The platforms tracks of Remagen railway station are operated as follows:

Train services

The station is served by the following services:Timetables for Remagen station
/ref> *Eurocity services (EC 32) ''Münster - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Stuttgart – München – Salzburg – Villach – Klagenfurt'' *Eurocity services (EC 32) ''Münster - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Stuttgart – Lindau - Innsbruck'' *Intercity services (IC 32) ''(Berlin - Hanover -) Dortmund - Essen - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Stuttgart - Munich'' *Intercity services (IC 35) ''Norddeich - Emden - Rheine - Münster - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Konstanz'' *Intercity services (IC 35) ''Norddeich - Emden - Rheine - Münster - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Stuttgart'' *Intercity services (IC 55) ''Magdeburg - Hanover - Dortmund - Essen - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Stuttgart - Oberstdorf'' *Regional services

Rhein-Express The Rhein-Express is a Regional-Express (RE 5 (RRX)) service, which generally follows the Rhine (german: Rhein) river. It runs daily every hour from 5 am to 9 pm from Wesel via Oberhausen, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Remagen and A ...

''Emmerich - Oberhausen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Remagen - Koblenz'' *Local services

MittelrheinBahn 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 ...

''Cologne - Bonn - Remagen - Andernach - Koblenz'' *Local services Rhein-Ahr-Bahn ''Bonn - Remagen - Bad Neuenahr - Dernau - Ahrbrück'' *Local services Ahrtalbahn ''Remagen - Bad Neuenahr - Dernau (- Kreuzberg)''

References

External links

*{{cite web, url=http://www.ahrtalbahn.de/bhf/rem/125j-rem.htm , title=Photographs from the 125th birthday celebration of Remagen station , language=German , accessdate= 30 April 2011 Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate Railway stations in Germany opened in 1858 Ahrweiler (district) 1858 establishments in Prussia Remagen