Düsseldorf Airport station

Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen
Platforms
Operations
Category	2[1]
Type	Bf
DS100 code	KDFF (long-distance) KDFFH (S-Bahn)
Station code	1400
Construction and location
Opened	26 May 2000
Location	Düsseldorf
State	NRW
Country	Germany
Local authority	Lohausen
51°17′30″N 6°47′11″E / 51.29167°N 6.78639°E / 51.29167; 6.78639
Ahrensplatz 1 40474 Düsseldorf[2]
Route information
Cologne–Duisburg line S 1
List of railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia

Düsseldorf Airport S-Bahn service
Duisburg Hbf Duisburg-Rahm Düsseldorf-Angermund Düsseldorf Airport SkyTrain Parkhaus 4 SkyTrain Terminal A/B SkyTrain Terminal C Düsseldorf Airport Terminal C Düsseldorf-Unterrath Düsseldorf-Derendorf Düsseldorf Zoo Düsseldorf-Wehrhahn 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 International 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.

Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen is not to be confused with the Düsseldorf Airport Terminal station which is an S-Bahn station under Terminal C.

History

The federal government provided € 14.6 million towards the construction of Düsseldorf Airport station.^[3] It was inaugurated on 26 May 2000, in the presence of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, Wolfgang Clement.^[4] The station cost DM 125 million to build and went into operation on 28 May 2000.^[5]

On 1 July 2002, the SkyTrain was opened. The track is 2.5 km long and 23 m 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.^[6]

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. 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

The following services currently call at Düsseldorf Flughafen (list not complete):

• NRW-Express Aachen - Cologne - Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Dortmund - Hamm - Paderborn
• Rhein-Haard-Express Münster - Dülmen - Recklinghausen - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf
• Rhein-Emscher-Express Hamm - Dortmund - Gelsenkirchen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf
• Rhein-Express Emmerich - Wesel - Oberhausen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz
• Westfalen-Express Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Dortmund - Hamm - Bielefeld - Minden

Series	Operator	Route	Material	Frequency	Notes
ICE10	DB	Berlin Ostbahnhof - Berlin Hbf - Berlin-Spandau - Wolfsburg Hbf - Hannover Hbf - Bielefeld Hbf - Hamm - Dortmund Hbf - Bochum Hbf - Essen Hbf - Duisburg Hbf - Düsseldorf Flughafen - Düsseldorf Hbf - Köln Messe/Deutz - Köln/Bonn Flughafen	ICE 1	1x per hour
IC35	DB	Norddeich Mole - Norddeich - Norden - Emden Hbf - Leer - Papenburg - Meppen - Lingen (Ems) - Rheine - Münster Hbf - Recklinghausen Hbf - Wanne-Eickel Hbf - Gelsenkirchen Hbf - Oberhausen Hbf - Duisburg Hbf - Düsseldorf Flughafen - Düsseldorf Hbf - Köln Hbf - Bonn Hbf - Remagen - Andernach - Koblenz Hbf - Cochem - Bullay - Wittlich Hbf - Trier Hbf - Wasserbillig - Luxembourg	DB Class 101, DB Class 120 and IC stock	Every 2 Hours
RB35 Der Weseler	DB Regio	Emmerich - Praest - Millingen - Empel-Rees - Haldern - Mehrhoog - Wesel-Feldmark - Wesel - Friedrichsfeld - Voerde - Dinslaken - Oberhausen-Holten - Oberhausen-Sterkrade - Oberhausen Hbf - Duisburg Hbf - Düsseldorf Flughafen - Düsseldorf Hbf	DB Class 425, DB Class 110 + Coaching Stock	1x per hour	Peak Times only (Monday - Friday)

Preceding station		DB AG		Following station
Düsseldorf Hbf toward Köln/Bonn Flughafen		ICE 10		Duisburg Hbf toward Berlin Ostbahnhof
Düsseldorf Hbf toward Karlsruhe Hbf, Stuttgart Hbf, or Luxembourg		IC/EC 35		Duisburg Hbf toward Emden Außenhafen or Norddeich Mole
Düsseldorf Hbf toward Köln Hbf		IC 51		Duisburg Hbf toward Ostseebad Binz
Düsseldorf Hbf toward Aachen Hbf		RE 1 NRW-Express		Duisburg Hbf toward Paderborn Hbf
Düsseldorf Hbf Terminus		RE 2 Rhein-Haard-Express		Duisburg Hbf toward Münster Hbf
Duisburg Hbf toward Emmerich		RE 5 Rhein-Express		Düsseldorf Hbf toward Koblenz Hbf
Düsseldorf Hbf Terminus		RE 6 Westfalen-Express		Duisburg Hbf toward Minden
		RB 35 Der Weseler		Duisburg Hbf toward Emmerich
Preceding station		eurobahn		Following station
Düsseldorf Hbf Terminus		RE 3 Rhein-Emscher-Express		Duisburg Hbf toward Hamm
Preceding station		Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn		Following station
Düsseldorf-Unterrath toward Solingen Hbf		S1		Angermund toward Dortmund Hbf

Notes

1. ^ German railway station categories 2010
2. ^ Düsseldorf Flughafen at bahnhof.de
3. ^ "Answer to parliamnetary questions from Winfried Hermann, Dr. Anton Hofreiter, Peter Hettlich, and other of the BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN group – printed matter 16/7104" (in German). Records 16/7371. Deutscher Bundestag. 29 November 2007. http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/16/073/1607371.pdf. Retrieved 18 September 2011. 
4. ^ (in German) Düsseldorf Year Book. 72. Düsseldorf: Droste. 2001. p. 246. ISBN 3-7700-3047-8. 
5. ^ "Neuer Flughafenbahnhof Düsseldorf" (in German). Eisenbahn-Revue International (6): 243. 2000. 
6. ^ "Sky-Train in Düsseldorf" (in German). Eisenbahn-Revue International (10): 447. 2002. 

References

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

External links

• stationairport.de convention centre (German) (English)
• "Düsseldorf Flughafen station" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://nrwbahnarchiv.bplaced.net/bf/8000082.htm. Retrieved 18 September 2011. 
• "Düsseldorf Flughafen station area (KDFF) operations" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://nrwbahnarchiv.bplaced.net/kln/KDFF.htm. Retrieved 18 September 2011. 
• "Düsseldorf Flughafen station area (KDFFH) operations" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://nrwbahnarchiv.bplaced.net/kln/KDFFH.htm. Retrieved 18 September 2011. 
• 360° panorama of the station