Leverkusen – After weeks of closure, the railway line between Cologne and Düsseldorf is scheduled to be reopened on Sunday evening.
From Sunday evening (September 24th), the Rhine-Ruhr Express between Düsseldorf and Cologne will no longer run any diversions. © Henning Kaiser/dpa
According to Deutsche Bahn, regional and long-distance trains will then roll there again, and the S-Bahn will follow when operations start on Monday morning.
Due to the construction site for the expansion of the Rhine-Ruhr Express (RRX) between Langenfeld and Leverkusen, trains have had to take diversions since the end of July.
The route was originally supposed to be accessible again in mid-August. But the date was repeatedly postponed. According to Deutsche Bahn, the reason was, among other things, a large-scale theft of overhead cables.
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The section is part of the mammoth RRX expansion project. The aim is for a fast regional express to run every 15 minutes on the 120 kilometers of trains between Cologne and Dortmund.
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