Cologne/Bonn Airport station
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The Cologne / Bonn Airport station is a German airport train station to connect the Cologne / Bonn airport to the rail network. Built in the context of the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main station is served by ICE, S -Bahn and regional trains. Opened in June 2004, the railway station is part of the approximately 15 km long airport loop.
The Cologne / Bonn airport is the Frankfurt airport and the airport Dusseldorf, the third German airport with connection to the ICE network.
The approximately 420 m long and 40 m wide tunnel station is classified by Deutsche Bahn in the train station category 3.
The four tracks are 18 meters below the surface.
In 2002, the expected construction costs of the station stood at 58.3 million euros. They have been applied by the Federal Government, the State of North Rhine -Westphalia and the airport Cologne / Bonn. Overall, the federal government contributed approximately 255 million euros to the construction costs of the airport loop and station.
Construction
Under a vaulted glass roof there are two platforms with two tracks between concrete walls. A large glass staircase in the middle of the platforms used for platform change and leads to one of the emergency exits. Escalators and elevators lead to ensure a level with any entry at different rolling stock from the platform into the basement of Terminal 2, the difference in height between the rail and the platform edge is on the outer tracks 76 cm and the inner, laid a little lower, 96 cm. The high S - Bahn cars also stop at the low platform, which can not be avoided for operational reasons.
The two central platforms are 405 m long and 9.40 m wide.
Between the two main tracks through the threading of the two outer platform tracks, a double track change is in the northern end of the station, but to the south there, which is used by ending on that station ICE trains.
The running of the station transition region between the two airport terminals is spanned over a length of 156 m with a 36 m wide steel and glass roof. The 540 -tonne roof covers an area of 6100 m².
In June 2007, a two-storey connecting building of steel and glass with a facade surface of 1400 m² was check-in area B in Terminal 1 completed at the southern end of the station. There was previously only a temporary exit next to the access road, which is why the trail for a short distance through the atmosphere. When the construction work two escalators and an elevator were built.
On the platforms are alternately signs Cologne / Bonn Airport and Cologne / Bonn Airport.
History
Background
The link to the airport was proposed by the Federal Government on 20 December 1989 as part of the basic decision for a right bank leadership of the new line.
It goes beyond that back to the Berlin / Bonn Act of 26 April 1994, which provided for compensation for the relocation of Parliament and parts of the Federal Government to Berlin for the region Bonn. With the construction of the intermodal transport network should be strengthened, the operator of the airport hoping for further gains, including in passenger numbers. Originally, the train station, as in the competition design, are built as a closed tunnel, but was instead carried out with a large glass roof. Nevertheless, he is a tunnel station and is also referred to by Deutsche Bahn as such. So quit smoking with the reference to the property is not permitted as a tunnel station.
Planning
It was planned to the building by the architectural firm Murphy / Jahn, according to their designs already Terminal 2 was originated.
With the opening of new Cologne-Rhine/Main line should run through the station two ICE, three S -Bahn trains per hour in each direction. According to the expectations of 1995 should in future traveling by train to the airport about 30 percent of air travelers.
Construction
The station was constructed in three sections. In the central portion of the construction workers encountered when digging lignite and gravel that could be saving construction costs directly utilized as a building material.
After the station heads were created in the course of expansions and new construction of the airport began the creation of aesthetically sophisticated center piece in the fall of 2001. On January 29, 2002 Norbert Ruether, Serious Swan Hold, Hartmut Mehdorn and Angelika Mertens put the groundbreaking ceremony. The opening took place in the presence of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder on 12 June 2004.
From May 2006 to June 2007, a connecting building between the station and Terminal 1 was built. Building owner of the six -million-euro initiative was the German railway. The cultivation of the architecture firm Murphy / Jahn has been commissioned again.
For the airport, the construction of the station was the final component of the comprehensive more than 500 million euros concept terminal 2000. Catchment area of the airport had increased with the new station on more than 20 million people.
Operation
2007, the number of daily ICE trains was reduced to six pairs of trains due to low demand of eight.
S- Bahn train connections
Since the construction of the airport loop to a large extent financed by the compensation funds of the Berlin / Bonn Act, especially the region of Bonn / Rhein-Sieg should be connected to the airport. Up to now, but have only Cologne and - from the Rhein- Sieg-Kreis Troisdorf - on the S 13 is a full S-Bahn connection to the airport. Unique features of the S 13 will be continued since mid- December 2013 in the morning rush hour via Siegburg to Hennef.
Along the Right Rhine line (Cologne - Troisdorf- city of Bonn ) there is only a one-hour clock to the airport train station via the Rhine- Erft -Express ( RE 8). More frequent connections are not possible here because the track is heavily frequented by freight transport. Along the way of Troisdorf to Bonn Oberkassel to one, sometimes two, new tracks are being built to extend the 13 circulating far from Kerpen- Horrem over Cologne main station and the airport Troisdorf S to Upper Kassel. It is planned to let go another train about Bad Honnef to Linz am Rhein. Statements to the start of construction and on budget, the Deutsche Bahn was in October 2013 for the first quarter of 2014 [ deprecated] announced.
Operation
The Roadmap 2013, the station is serviced by the following lines: