Köln-Mülheim station

Bahnhof Köln-Mülheim
Bf
File:Köln-Mülheim Bf 02.jpg Platforms at Köln-Mülheim station
Location	Montanusstraße 51065 Köln-Mülheim Mülheim, Cologne (Köln), NRW Germany
Coordinates
Line(s)	Cologne–Duisburg railway Sülz Valley Railway
Other information
Station code	3336
DS100 code	KKM
Category	4
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	19 November 1874

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

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New Mulheim station in 1910

In the 19th century there were several stations in Mülheim, since all the private railway companies had separate lines and railway facilities.

The stations of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German: Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) on the line between Cologne and Duisburg and the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BME) on the Gruiten–Cologne-Deutz railway) were next to each other in Buchheim-Strasse (now Wiener Platz). The station of the Rhenish Railway Company (Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) on the Troisdorf–Mülheim-Speldorf railway was built outside the town at the site of the current Cologne-Mülheim station.

After the nationalisation of the railway companies there was long consideration of how to consolidate rail operations at one site. Eventually it was decided to tear down stations of the CME and BME and move the lines serving them to the east. Construction began in 1903 and on 1 July 1909 the new station was inaugurated and the all freight and passenger traffic were routed over the rerouted lines.

Today the station is a hub for regional and S-Bahn traffic in northeastern Cologne and an important point of interchange between regional and local transport.

Historical development

• 1874: Opening of the Troisdorf–Mülheim-Speldorf railway of the Rhenish Railway Company
• 1909: Construction of the station at its present site in Mülheim
• 1944: Destruction of the station building in bombing raids
• 1951: Reconstruction of the station building in a simplified form
• 1975: Opening of S-Bahn operations (Bergisch Gladbach–Cologne–Köln-Chorweiler)
• 1990: Opening of the S-Bahn main line
• 1997: Opening of the underground Stadtbahn station
• since 2004: Reconstruction of the track network as part of the line upgrade to Köln Messe/Deutz station (low level)

Train services

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Köln-Mülheim U-Bahn station

The station is served by the following services:

• Regional services RE 1 NRW-Express Aachen - Cologne - Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Dortmund - Hamm - Paderborn
• Regional services RE 5 Rhein-Express Emmerich - Wesel - Oberhausen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz
• Local services RB 48 Rhein-Wupper-Bahn Bonn-Mehlem - Bonn - Cologne - Solingen - Wuppertal
• Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn services S 6 Essen - Kettwig - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Köln-Nippes
• Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn services S 11 Düsseldorf Airport Terminal - Düsseldorf - Neuss - Cologne - Bergisch Gladbach

Preceding station		Deutsche Bahn		Following station
Köln Messe/Deutz toward Aachen Hbf		RE 1 NRW-Express		Leverkusen Mitte toward Paderborn Hbf
Leverkusen Mitte toward Emmerich		RE 5 Rhein-Express		Köln Messe/Deutz toward Koblenz Hbf
Köln Messe/Deutz toward Bonn-Mehlem		RB 48 Rhein-Wupper-Bahn		Leverkusen-Schlebusch toward Wuppertal Hbf
Preceding station		Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn		Following station
Köln-Buchforst toward Köln-Nippes Hbf		S 6		Köln-Stammheim toward Essen Hbf
Köln-Buchforst toward Düsseldorf Flughafen Terminal		S 11		Köln-Holweide toward Bergisch Gladbach Hbf
Preceding station		KVB		Following station
Wiener Platz toward Sülzgürtel		13		Buchheim Herler Straße toward Holweide Vischeringstraße
Wiener Platz toward Bonn Hauptbahnhof		18		Buchheim Herler Straße toward Thielenbruch