The station building

Köln Messe/Deutz is a railway station in Cologne, Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. It is situated next to the Rhine river and just several hundred metres away from Köln Hauptbahnhof, the city's main station. The Rhine (Rhein Rijn Rhin Reno Rain Rhenus is one of the longest and most important Rivers in Europe at 1320 kilometres (820 mi with an average discharge Köln Hauptbahnhof (English Cologne Central Station, Abbr: Köln Hbf) is the central railway station in Cologne, Germany

Deutz station serves an important function in providing some relief for the Köln Hauptbahnhof bottleneck - some ICE services call at Köln-Deutz instead at Köln Hbf, eliminating the need for changing direction. The InterCityExpress or ICE (German pronunciation) is a system of high-speed trains predominantly running in Germany and neighbouring countries

Operational usage

Tracks on different levels

Köln-Deutz has several tracks, ten from east to west, and two from north to south. Deutsche Bahn and its precessors Deutsche Bundesbahn, Deutsche Reichsbahn and DRG use a system of letters to denote a station on their network The north-south tracks, also referred to as Köln Messe/Deutz (tief), are situated under the east-west tracks, which connect the station to the main station via the Hohenzollern bridge. The Hohenzollernbrücke ( German for Hohenzollern bridge) is a Bridge crossing the river Rhine in the German city Usually services of all kind call at the station, but the situation is different in 2007, because Deutz(tief) is closed due to construction work on the tracks to Köln-Mülheim. Currently the only long-distance service calling at Köln-Deutz is Thalys, as Deutz is the final station before pulling into the Deutzerfeld marshalling yard. Thalys is an international high-speed train operator built around the high-speed lines between Paris, Brussels, Cologne and Amsterdam A ( US and Canada) classification yard or ( UK and Canada) marshalling yard (including hump yards) is a Railroad Connections to local traffic are provided by a subterranean Stadtbahn station. See also Light rail Stadtbahn (literally in German: city railway) or Premetro, is a Tramway or Light railway which

See also

• Köln Hauptbahnhof

External links

• Google Maps satellite view

Preceding station		Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn		Following station
Köln Hbf toward Köln-Nippes		S6		Köln Buchforst toward Essen Hbf
Köln Hbf toward Wuppertal-Vohwinkel		S11		Köln Buchforst toward Bergisch Gladbach
Köln Hbf toward Düren		S12		Köln Trimbornstrasse toward Au
Köln Hbf toward Horrem		S13		Köln Trimbornstrasse toward Troisdorf