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Cologne–Duisburg railway

Index Cologne–Duisburg railway

The 64 km long Cologne–Duisburg railway is one of the most important lines in Germany. [1]

51 relations: Alternating current, Bergisch-Markisch Railway Company, Berlin, Cathedral Bridge, Cologne, Cologne-Minden Railway Company, Cologne-Minden trunk line, Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Airport station, Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof, Düsseldorf-Unterrath–Düsseldorf Airport Terminal railway, Deutz, Cologne, Dortmund, Duisburg Hauptbahnhof, Duisburg–Dortmund railway, Gelsenkirchen, German language, Gruiten–Köln-Deutz railway, Hagen Hauptbahnhof, Hamm, Hanover–Minden railway, Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Intercity (Deutsche Bahn), Intercity-Express, Köln Hauptbahnhof, Köln-Mülheim station, Langenfeld, Rhineland, Linienzugbeeinflussung, List of the first German railways to 1870, NRW-Express, Oberhausen, Overhead line, Prussia, Regional-Express, Regionalbahn, Rhein-Emscher-Express, Rhein-Express, Rhein-Haard-Express, Rhein-Hellweg-Express, Rhein-IJssel-Express, Rhein-Weser-Express, Rhenish Railway Company, Rhine, Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, Royal Hanoverian State Railways, Ruhr, Ruhr (river), Train protection system, Wanne, Germany, Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg railway, ..., Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof. Expand index (1 more) »

Alternating current

Alternating current (AC) is an electric current which periodically reverses direction, in contrast to direct current (DC) which flows only in one direction.

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Bergisch-Markisch Railway Company

The Bergisch-Markisch Railway Company (Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BME), also referred to as the Berg-Mark Railway Company or, more rarely, as the Bergisch-Markische Railway Company, was a German railway company that together with the Cologne-Minden Railway (Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) and the Rhenish Railway Company (Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) was one of the three (nominally) private railway companies that in the mid-19th century built the first railways in the Ruhr and large parts of today's North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Cathedral Bridge

The Cathedral Bridge ('Dombrücke') was a railway and street bridge crossing the river Rhine in the German city of Cologne.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln,, Kölle) is the largest city in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth most populated city in Germany (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich).

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Cologne-Minden Railway Company

The Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German, old spelling: Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) was along with the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company and the Rhenish Railway Company one of the railway companies that in the mid-19th century built the first railways in the Ruhr and large parts of today's North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Cologne-Minden trunk line

The Cologne-Minden trunk line is a railway built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME).

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Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf (Low Franconian, Ripuarian: Düsseldörp), often Dusseldorf in English sources, is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the seventh most populous city in Germany. Düsseldorf is an international business and financial centre, renowned for its fashion and trade fairs.

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Düsseldorf Airport station

Düsseldorf Airport (Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen) is a railway station in Düsseldorf, Germany on the Cologne–Duisburg line that connects Düsseldorf Airport to Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte and long-distance trains, most of them ICE trains.

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Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof

Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station of Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Düsseldorf-Unterrath–Düsseldorf Airport Terminal railway

The Düsseldorf-Unterrath–Düsseldorf Airport Terminal railway is a branch line from Düsseldorf-Unterrath station on the Cologne–Duisburg line to Düsseldorf Airport Terminal station in the north of the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital of Düsseldorf in Germany.

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Deutz, Cologne

Cologne-Deutz, often just Deutz is an inner city part of Cologne, Germany and a formerly independent town.

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Dortmund

Dortmund (Düörpm:; Tremonia) is an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Duisburg Hauptbahnhof

Duisburg Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the city of Duisburg in western Germany.

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Duisburg–Dortmund railway

The Duisburg-Dortmund Railway is an important and historically significant railway in Germany.

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Gelsenkirchen

Gelsenkirchen is a city in the North Rhine-Westphalia state of Germany.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Gruiten–Köln-Deutz railway

The Gruiten–Cologne-Deutz railway is a major German railway.

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Hagen Hauptbahnhof

Hagen Hauptbahnhof is a railway station serving the city of Hagen in western Germany.

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Hamm

Hamm (Latin: Hammona) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Hanover–Minden railway

The Hanover–Minden railway is one of the most important railways in Lower Saxony and railway in Germany.

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Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia

Herne is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Intercity (Deutsche Bahn)

Intercity is the second-highest train classification in Germany, after the ICE.

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Intercity-Express

The Intercity-Express (written as InterCityExpress in Austria, Denmark, Switzerland and, formerly, in Germany) or ICE is a system of high-speed trains predominantly running in Germany and its surrounding countries.

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Köln Hauptbahnhof

Köln Hauptbahnhof (German for Cologne main station) is a railway station in Cologne, Germany.

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Köln-Mülheim station

Köln-Mülheim is a railway station situated at Mülheim, Cologne in western Germany.

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Langenfeld, Rhineland

Langenfeld is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) in the district of Mettmann.

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Linienzugbeeinflussung

Linienzugbeeinflussung (or LZB) is a cab signalling and train protection system used on selected German and Austrian railway lines as well as the AVE in Spain.

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List of the first German railways to 1870

List of the first German railways to 1870 with German railways ordered by date of the commissioning the first phase of construction.

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NRW-Express

The NRW-Express is a Regional-Express service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), running from Aachen via Cologne, Düsseldorf, Essen and Dortmund to Hamm as line RE 1.

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Oberhausen

Oberhausen is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen. The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen) was a historically prominent German state that originated in 1525 with a duchy centred on the region of Prussia.

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Regional-Express

In Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, the Regional-Express (RE, or in Austria: REX) is a type of regional train.

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Regionalbahn

The Regionalbahn (abbreviated RB) is a type of local passenger train (stopping train) in Germany.

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Rhein-Emscher-Express

The Rhein-Emscher-Express (RE 3) is a Regional-Express service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), running from Düsseldorf via Duisburg, Gelsenkirchen and Dortmund to Hamm.

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Rhein-Express

The Rhein-Express is a Regional-Express (RE 5) service, which generally follows the Rhine (Rhein.) river.

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Rhein-Haard-Express

The Rhein-Haard-Express (RE 2) is a Regional-Express service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), running from Münster via Recklinghausen, Gelsenkirchen, Essen and Duisburg to Düsseldorf.

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Rhein-Hellweg-Express

The Rhein-Hellweg-Express (RE 11) is a Regional-Express service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), running from Hamm via Dortmund, Bochum, Essen, Duisburg and Düsseldorf Airport to Düsseldorf Hbf.

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Rhein-IJssel-Express

The Rhein-IJssel-Express is a Regional-Express service in German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Dutch province of Gelderland, in service as from December 2016 from Düsseldorf to Emmerich am Rhein.

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Rhein-Weser-Express

The Rhein-Weser-Express (RE 6) is a Regional-Express service route in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, connecting the most important cities in Westphalia (among others Minden, Bielefeld and Hamm) with the Ruhr (especially Dortmund, Bochum, Essen, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Neuss and Cologne).

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Rhenish Railway Company

The Rhenish Railway Company (German: Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) was along with the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (CME) and the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (BME) one of the railway companies that in the mid-19th century built the first railways in the Ruhr and large parts of today's North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine (Rhenus, Rein, Rhein, le Rhin,, Italiano: Reno, Rijn) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea.

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Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn

The Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn (S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr) is a polycentric and electrically driven S-train network covering the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Royal Hanoverian State Railways

The Royal Hanoverian State Railways (German: Königlich Hannöversche Staatseisenbahnen) existed from 1843 until the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866.

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Ruhr

The Ruhr (Ruhrgebiet), or the Ruhr district, Ruhr region, Ruhr area or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Ruhr (river)

__notoc__ The Ruhr is a river in western Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia), a right tributary (east-side) of the Rhine.

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Train protection system

A train protection system is a railway technical installation to ensure safe operation in the event of human failure.

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Wanne, Germany

Wanne is a residential area in the northern outskirts of the city of Tübingen, Germany.

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Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg railway

The Witten/Dortmund, Oberhausen/Duisburg railway is one of the most important railways in Germany. It is the main axis of long distance and regional rail transport on the east–west axis of the Ruhr and is served by Intercity-Express, InterCity, Regional-Express, Regionalbahn and S-Bahn trains. Strictly speaking, the line today consists of two parallel two-track lines, one for mainline trains and the other for S-Bahn trains. On several sections of the line the long-distance tracks and S-Bahn tracks follow separate routes. The long-distance tracks follows the historical route built between 1860 and 1862 by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company as an extension of its trunk line between Elberfeld and Dortmund.

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Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof

Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof (German for Wuppertal main station) is a railway station in the city of Wuppertal, just south of the Ruhr Area, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne–Duisburg_railway

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