


On the west bank of the Rhine there were the Bonn-Cologne Railway Company (German, old spelling: Bonn-Cölner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BCE), the Cologne-Krefeld Railway Company (German, old spelling: Cöln-Crefelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CCE) and the Rhenish Railway Company (German: Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE). 1.3 Reconstruction and new constructionīy 1850 there were five stations at Cologne that had been built by different railway companies.Frequent local services connect the two stations. The stations are linked by the Hohenzollern Bridge, a six-track railway bridge with pedestrian and bicycle lanes on each side. There is another important station in Cologne, the Köln Messe/Deutz station across the river Rhine, just about 400 metres away from Köln Hauptbahnhof. The station is situated next to Cologne Cathedral. On an average day, about 280,000 travellers frequent the station, making it the fifth busiest station in Germany. It has frequent connections to Frankfurt by way of the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line, which starts in southern Cologne. EuroNight and Nightjet night services also call at the station. The station is an important local, national and international transport hub, with many ICE, Thalys and Intercity trains calling there, as well as regional Regional-Express, RegionalBahn and local S-Bahn trains. Köln Hauptbahnhof or Cologne Central Station is a railway station in Cologne, Germany.
