Cologne Airport loop

The Cologne Airport Loop is a 15.2-kilometre-long (9.4 mi) railway line, which connects the Cologne/Bonn Airport station to the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line. The loop is used by Intercity-Express trains, the Rhein-Erft-Bahn (RB 27) and S-Bahn line 13.

Cologne Airport loop
Overview
Native nameFlughafenschleife Köln
Line number
  • 450.13 (S-Bahn)
  • 465 (East Rhine Railway)
  • 472 (High-speed line)
LocaleNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Service
Route number2691 (2692/3/4)
Technical
Line length15.2 km (9.4 mi)
Operating speed130km/h (max)
Route map

km
km
HSR│Sieg Railway & S-Bahn
to Köln Hauptbahnhof
05.5
Airport northwest junction (Long distance)
0.0
Airport northeast junction (S-Bahn)
1.5
 Köln-Frankfurter Straße
08.5
2.3
Frankfurter Straße junction
A 59
Köln-Kalk–Overath railway
Schloss-Röttgen Tunnel (
1.047 km
0.651 mi
)
Airport Tunnel (
4.210 km
2.616 mi
)
15.2
Cologne/Bonn Airport
A 59
0.0
18.5
Porz-Wahn Nord junction
1.3
 Porz-Wahn
19.5
Porz-Wahn Süd junction
HSR
to Frankfurt
│
Sieg Railway
& S-Bahn
km
km
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