Unkel station

Unkel
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
Former Unkel station building
General information
LocationSiebebgebirgsstr. 2, Unkel, Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany
Coordinates50°36′13.2″N 7°13′10.2″E / 50.603667°N 7.219500°E / 50.603667; 7.219500
Line(s)
Platforms3
Construction
AccessibleNo
Other information
Station code6334[1]
DS100 codeKUN[2]
IBNR8005970
Category5[1]
Fare zone
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1870
Services
Preceding station DB Regio NRW Following station
Bad Honnef (Rhein)
towards Mönchengladbach Hbf
 RE 8 Linz (Rhein)
towards Koblenz Hbf
RB 27 Erpel (Rhein)
towards Koblenz Hbf

Unkel station is on the East Rhine Railway (German: Rechte Rheinstrecke) and is the only station in the town of Unkel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was built in 1870. The station has three platform tracks on two platforms. The regional rail services are organised by the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (Rhine-Moselle transport association, VRM) and the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (Rhine-Sieg transport association, VRS). The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]

History

Unkel station with the former station building

After the West Rhine Railway was completed in 1858, the Rhenish Railway Company (Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) began construction of the East Rhine line from Beuel to Neuwied. There was some discussion of the need for stations between Honnef and Linz. Erpel, Rheinbreitbach and Unkel each wanted its own station. The railway company originally did want to build a station. After protests from the mayor and the district administrator stations were built, first at Unkel and later at Erpel.

In the summer of 2006, the station building was closed after the station bar was abandoned. Weather-protected seating was built on the platform on the line to Koblenz as a replacement for the closed waiting room.

Services

The station is served by RE8 services hourly. On working days, it is also served by RB27 services, which together provide a service every half-hour to Cologne and Rommerskirchen and to Koblenz.

Line Service Route Frequency
RE 8 Rhein-Erft-Express Mönchengladbach – Rheydt – Cologne – Porz (Rhein) – Troisdorf – Bonn-Beuel – Unkel – Linz (Rhein) - Neuwied - Koblenz Stadtmitte - Koblenz Hourly
RB 27 Rhein-Erft-Bahn Mönchengladbach – Rheydt – Cologne – Köln/Bonn Flughafen – Troisdorf – Bonn-Beuel – Unkel – Linz (Rhein) - Neuwied - Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein -Koblenz Hourly

References

  1. ^ a b c "Stationspreisliste 2025" [Station price list 2025] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  2. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. ^ "Tarifwabenplan 2021" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel. January 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Ticketberater". Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. Retrieved 12 June 2020.