Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway
The Cologne–Aachen high-speed line is the German part of the Trans-European transport networks project high-speed line Paris–Brussels–Cologne. It is not a newly built railway line, but a project to upgrade the existing railway line which was opened in 1841 by the Rhenish Railway Company. When it was continued into Belgium in 1843, it became the world's first international railway line.
Information board at the opening of the line from Cologne to Aachen in Düren
Burtscheider Viaduct
Düren station in 1920
Typical S-Bahn stop in Merzenich
The Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn is a polycentric and electrically driven S-bahn network covering the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region in the German federated state of North Rhine-Westphalia. This includes most of the Ruhr, the Berg cities of Wuppertal and Solingen and parts of the Rhineland. The easternmost city within the S-Bahn Rhine-Ruhr network is Unna, the westernmost city served is Mönchengladbach.
DBAG Class 422 type at Dortmund Hauptbahnhof
An X-Wagen control car at Essen Süd in July 2014
A Class 111 locomotive leads an orange-and-white S-Bahn service across the Hohenzollernbrücke into Köln Hauptbahnhof in 1985
S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr Series 422 at Angermund station