Rhein-Erft-Express

RE 8 Rhein-Erft-Express
Overview
Locale	North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Service
Route number	465
Technical
Line length	156 km (97 mi)
Route map Legend 0 Mönchengladbach Main Station ICE, IC 4 Mönchengladbach-Rheydt IC 7 Mönchengladbach-Odenkirchen 12 Jüchen-Hochneukirch 15 Jüchen 22 Grevenbroich 33 Rommerskirchen 38 Stommeln 42 Pulheim 52 Köln-Ehrenfeld 55 Cologne Main Station THA, ICE, IC 57 Köln Tradefair/Deutz Main Station ICE 71 Cologne/Bonn Airport (until December 2019) ICE Cologne-Porz 75 Cologne-Porz/Wahn (until June 2004) 82 Troisdorf 87 Sankt Augustin-Menden 92 Bonn-Beuel 95 Bonn-Oberkassel 98 Königswinter-Niederdollendorf 100 Königswinter 102 Bad Honnef (Westphalia)-Rhöndorf 104 Bad Honnef (Westphalia) 109 Unkel 115 Linz (Palatinate/RLP) 121 Bad Hönningen 137 Neuwied Main Station 142 Weißenthurm-Urmitz Rheinbrücke 149 Koblenz-Lützel 150 Koblenz Downtown 151 Koblenz Main Station ICE, IC Source: German railway atlas[1]

The Rhein-Erft-Express is a Regional-Express service in the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. It is numbered as line RE 8 and connects the cities of Mönchengladbach, Cologne, Bonn and Koblenz with each other and their surroundings, running hourly. It is complemented by a Regionalbahn stopping service, the Rhein-Erft-Bahn (RB 27), running also between Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof and Koblenz Hauptbahnhof. On weekends it stops at some additional stations between Cologne Hbf and Koblenz Hbf. It is operated by DB Regio with Alstom Coradia Continental EMUs.