Cologne – Almost 1,300 trains run through Cologne Central Station every day – now one of Germany’s most important railway junctions will be closed for ten days. Although the real reason for this has been lost for a while.
Train incoming tourists Cologne You’ll need to have a lot of courage starting Friday, 9pm: There will be no more long-distance and regional trains leaving for the main station until November 24. Instead, many ICE stops at Cologne-Ehrenfeld or at the Messe/Deutz train station.
Bahn wanted to raise the signal box during the shutdown
Closing is already planned to start one of the two new signal boxes. Reiner Krieger from railway infrastructure subsidiary DB InfraGO: “With the inauguration of two new electronic signal boxes ‘Linker Rhein’ and now ‘Köln Hbf’, a big step has been taken in the modernization of railway traffic in Cologne.” They invested 360 million euros German trains into him.
Two employees at the Deutsche Bahn signal box in Cologne
That’s stupid: the company’s computer experts discovered the error in software from the new signal box. Commissioning cannot take place in November. However, the closure is still in place. During this time, work will be done on computer problems, switches and air ducts.
The station had to be closed again
The main station will have to close again next year to allow the new control center to operate.
Moreover: From the replacement train stations at Ehrenfeld and Messe/Deutz, tourists can take the train S-Bahn Continue to the main train station. It is controlled from another signal box. Current information about connections is available at zuginfo.nrw.
