Köln-Weiden West station
Köln-Weiden West is a railway station situated at Weiden, Cologne in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Cologne–Aachen railway. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]
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| Location | Bonnstraße, Köln-Weiden West, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany | |||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°56′26″N 6°48′56″E | |||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Deutsche Bahn | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Line(s) | Cologne–Aachen | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 8131[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | KKWW[2] | |||||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8003383 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 5[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | VRS: 2100 and 2820[3] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 28 May 2006[4] | |||||||||||||||||||
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Station
The Stadtbahn station is on ground level just south of the line, enabling direct interchange. A light rail trip from Weiden West to the stop at the RheinEnergieStadion takes about ten minutes, so the stop is used by many football fans for home games of 1. FC Köln. Many commuters also use the stop because of the nearby Frechen-Nord junction on Autobahn 4. A park and ride facility with 430 parking spaces was therefore expanded to 680 parking spaces in 2008. As the occupancy of the parking lot is still very high during the week, a further increase in the number of parking lots is being discussed. According to the City of Cologne, this can only be done by establishing a parking garage since there are no more spaces available for expansion. This would require a grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which requires long-term planning.[5]
History
The station was built before the 2006 FIFA World Cup to relief the Stadtbahn trains from RheinEnergie Stadion (part of line 1) to the center of Cologne. When Weiden West was opened, people coming from west of Cologne could change there to the Stadtbahn instead of going via the Central Station of Cologne and use the westbound Stadtbahn to the stadium. It was opened on 28 May 2006[4] on a section of the Cologne–Aachen railway that was opened by the Rhenish Railway Company between Cologne and Müngersdorf on 6 September 1841.[6] At the same time, line 1 of the Cologne Stadtbahn was extended by about a kilometre to the west and a new terminus was built with four tracks.
Services
The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S13 between Sindorf or Düren and Troisdorf and line S19 between Düren and Hennef (Sieg), Blankenberg (Sieg), Herchen or Au (Sieg). Together these lines provide a service every 20 minutes on weekdays and every 30 minutes on the weekend. During the peak, line S12 also provides services every 20 minutes between Horrem and Hennef (Sieg). It is also served by line 1 of the Cologne Stadtbahn.[7]
Notes
- "Stationspreisliste 2023" [Station price list 2023] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
- Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- "VRS-Gemeinschaftstarif" (PDF) (in German). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. 20 April 2020. p. 200-202. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- "Köln-Weiden West operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
- "Mehr Stellplätze in Weiden-West?". Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (in German). 9 December 2013. Archived from the original on 23 December 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
- "Line 2600: Köln - Aachen (Grenze)". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- "Köln-Weiden West station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
External links
- station diagram map (in German)