Düsseldorf Airport station

Railway station in Düsseldorf
  • VRR: 432[4]
  • VRS: 1430 (VRR transitional tariff)[5]
Websitewww.bahnhof.deHistoryOpened26 May 2000[6]
Services
Preceding station Eurostar Following station
Düsseldorf Hbf
towards Paris-Nord
 Eurostar
 Duisburg Hbf
towards Dortmund Hbf
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station
Düsseldorf Hbf
towards Köln Hbf
 ICE 10 Duisburg Hbf
towards Berlin Ostbahnhof
Düsseldorf Hbf
Terminus
 IC 51 Duisburg Hbf
towards Gera Hbf
Preceding station National Express Germany Following station
Düsseldorf Hbf
towards Aachen Hbf
 RE 1 (NRW-Express) Duisburg Hbf
towards Hamm (Westf) Hbf
Düsseldorf Hbf
towards Koblenz Hbf
 RE 5 (Rhein-Express) Duisburg Hbf
towards Wesel
Düsseldorf Hbf RE 6 (Rhein-Weser-Express) Duisburg Hbf
towards Minden
Düsseldorf Hbf
Terminus
 RE 11 (Rhein-Hellweg-Express) Duisburg Hbf
Preceding station DB Regio NRW Following station
Düsseldorf Hbf
Terminus
 RE 2 Duisburg Hbf
Preceding station Eurobahn Following station
Düsseldorf Hbf
Terminus
 RE 3 Duisburg Hbf
towards Hamm (Westf) Hbf
Preceding station VIAS Following station
Düsseldorf Hbf
Terminus
 RE 19 Duisburg Hbf
Preceding station Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Following station
Düsseldorf-Unterrath
towards Solingen Hbf
 S1 Düsseldorf-Angermund
towards Dortmund Hbf
Map
Düsseldorf Airport rail services
Legend
Duisburg Hbf
Düsseldorf Airport
SkyTrain Parkhaus 4
SkyTrain Terminal A/B
SkyTrain Terminal C
 Düsseldorf Airport Terminal C
Düsseldorf Hbf
Aerial view of the airport; the station is visible on the bottom left end of the runway
View of the tracks

Düsseldorf Airport (Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen) is a railway station in Düsseldorf, Germany on the Cologne–Duisburg line that connects Düsseldorf Airport to Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte and long-distance trains, most of them ICE trains. Opened in May 2000, the new railway station has the capacity of 300 train departures per day.

History

The federal government provided €14.6 million towards the construction of Düsseldorf Airport station.[7] It was inaugurated on 26 May 2000, in the presence of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, Wolfgang Clement.[8] The station cost DM 125 million to build and went into operation on 28 May 2000.[9]

On 1 July 2002, the SkyTrain was opened. The track is 2.5 km (1.6 mi) long and 23 m (75 ft) high. After the commissioning of the SkyTrain had been delayed by a year due to software problems, the train stopped operations six times in the first two weeks of public operations and was then closed to 26 August.[10]

Current operations

Up to 300 trains stop here each day. It consists of a mainline station and an S-Bahn station, which share an entrance building. The mainline station has two platform tracks and in between there are two through tracks, running in each direction. These through tracks for trains not stopping at the station allow operations at speeds of up to 200 km/h (120 mph). The S-Bahn station lies to the west of the mainline station and also has two platform tracks. The SkyTrain station is further to the west.

Train services

Long distance

The station is served by the following long-distance services (as of 2022):[11]

Line Route Frequency
ICE 10 Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin – Hannover – Bielefeld – Hamm – Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf (– Cologne) Hourly
IC 51 Gera – Jena – Erfurt – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Hamm – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf One train pair
Eurostar Paris-Nord – Brussels-South – Liège-Guillemins – Aachen – Cologne – Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Essen – Dortmund Individual services

Regional

In local passenger service, Düsseldorf Airport is served by several regional and S-Bahn lines (as of 2020):[12][11]

Line Route Frequency
RE 1
NRW-Express		 Aachen – Eschweiler – Düren – Horrem – Cologne – Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen – Bochum – Dortmund – Hamm 60 min
RE 2
Rhein-Haard-Express		 Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen – Gelsenkirchen – Recklinghausen – Münster 60 min
RE 3
Rhein-Emscher-Express 		Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Oberhausen – Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof – Gelsenkirchen – Herne – Dortmund – Hamm 60 min
RE 5
Rhein-Express 		Wesel – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Bonn – Remagen – Andernach – Koblenz 60 mins
RE 6
Rhein-Weser-Express		 Minden – Herford – Bielefeld – Hamm – Dortmund – Essen – Mülheim – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf – Neuss – Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport 60 min
RE 11
Rhein-Hellweg-Express		 Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen – Dortmund – Hamm – Paderborn (– Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe) 60 min
RE 19
Rhein-IJssel-Express 		Arnhem – Emmerich – Wesel – Oberhausen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf 60 mins
S1 Dortmund – Bochum – Essen – Mülheim – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf – Hilden  – Solingen 30 min
20 min (between Duisburg and Solingen on week days)

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ at bahnhof.de
  2. ^ a b "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  3. ^ a b Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (10 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
  4. ^ "Wabenplan für das Rheinbahn-Bedienungsgebiet" (PDF). Rheinbahn. 1 August 2008. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  5. ^ "Ticket Überblick" (PDF) (in German). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. 1 January 2020. p. 17. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  6. ^ Joost, André. "Düsseldorf Flughafen station area (KDFF) operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Answer to parliamentary questions from Winfried Hermann, Dr. Anton Hofreiter, Peter Hettlich, and other of the BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN group – printed matter 16/7104" (PDF). Records 16/7371 (in German). Deutscher Bundestag. 29 November 2007. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  8. ^ Düsseldorf Year Book (in German). Vol. 72. Düsseldorf: Droste. 2001. p. 246. ISBN 3-7700-3047-8.
  9. ^ "Neuer Flughafenbahnhof Düsseldorf". Eisenbahn-Revue International (in German) (6): 243. 2000. ISSN 1421-2811.
  10. ^ "Sky-Train in Düsseldorf". Eisenbahn-Revue International (in German) (10): 447. 2002. ISSN 1421-2811.
  11. ^ a b Timetables for Düsseldorf Flughafen station (in German)
  12. ^ Joost, André. "Düsseldorf Airport station". NRW rail archive (in German). Retrieved 14 May 2020.

Sources

  • Sven Anderson (1999). "Zur Problematik des Fernbahnhofs Düsseldorf Flughafen". Eisenbahn-Revue International (in German) (7): 274–279. ISSN 1421-2811.
  • Sven Anderson (2001). "Planung und Realität des neuen Flughafen-Fernbahnhofs in Düsseldorf". Eisenbahn-Revue International (in German) (3): 137–139. ISSN 1421-2811.

External links

  • stationairport.de convention centre (in German and English)
  • "Düsseldorf Flughafen station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  • "Düsseldorf Flughafen station area (KDFF) operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  • "Düsseldorf Flughafen station area (KDFFH) operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
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