Lower Left Rhine Railway

Cologne–Nijmegen railway
Overview
Line number	2610
Locale	North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and Netherlands
Service
Route number	495, 450.11
Technical
Line length	120 km (75 mi)
Route map Legend from Arnhem 15.0 Nijmegen from Tilburg 10.2 Nijmegen-Heyendaal to Venlo 3.0 Groesbeek 0.0 131.0 Netherlands/Germany border 129.3 Kranenburg 125.0 Nütterden 122.3 Donsbrüggen 120.4 Cleve Tiergarten former train ferry from Elten 118.4 Kleve former Lower Rhine Railway from Duisburg 114.1 Bedburg-Hau 109.5 Pfalzdorf former Boxtel Railway from Boxtel 105.5 Goch former Boxtel Railway to Büderich 98.6 Weeze 92.5 Kevelaer 88.6 Wetten 83.6 Geldern formerly to Haltern and Venlo former Haltern–Venlo railway 80.3 Vernum (Bk) 76.3 Nieukerk 72.7 Aldekerk (Hp & Bk) 68.4 St Hubert-Vösch (Bk, former Hp) former line to Krefeld-Hüls 65.0 Kempen (Niederrhein) former from Venlo 59.0 Benrad-St Tönis line to St. Tönis and Hüls from Mönchengladbach connection from Krefeld steelworks Krefeld Süd 53.6 Krefeld Hbf original direct route original route to Duisburg 51.5 Krefeld freight yard Kriba (siding) 50.5 Krefeld-Oppum to Duisburg freight line to Krefeld-Linn freight line from Duisburg 49.1 Krefeld-Lohbruch (siding) A 44 former route 43.2 Meerbusch-Osterath A 57 A 52 37.1 Weißenberg (junction) to line to Düsseldorf main line from Düsseldorf S-Bahn line from Düsseldorf Neuss Gbf 36.2 Neuss Hbf (island station) line to Kaarst main line to Mönchengladbach line to Bedburg 34.4 Neuss Nordkanal (junction) 33.7 Neuss Süd A 57 29.8 Norf 27.0 Neuss Allerheiligen 24.3 Nievenheim HGK line to Zons A 57 20.8 Dormagen 43 m Bayer AG siding 17.7 Dormagen Chempark beginning of S-Bahn line (grade separated) 14.8 14.8 Köln-Worringen Köln-Kreuzberg S-Bahn tunnel (1992 m) 13.6 14.7 km change 12.9 Köln-Blumenberg 12.6 Köln-Chorweiler S-Bahn tunnel (2238 m) 11.6 Köln-Chorweiler Nord 11.0 00,0 Weiler 10.6 Köln-Chorweiler (Stadtbahn) 10.3 9.9 Köln Volkhovener Weg beginning of fright line (grade separated) 9.0 09.0 end of S-Bahn line (grade separated) A 1 7.8 07.8 Köln-Longerich 6.1 06.1 freight line of the HGK connecting line from HGK 4.8 00.0 Köln-Nippes freight yard former route (1855–1859) now Kempener Str. 3.5 Köln Geldernstr/Parkgürtel (Stadtbahn) beginning of S-Bahn line (grade separated) 3.1 03.0 Köln Etzelstraße 2.5 Köln-Nippes turn-back line 2.3 02.3 Köln-Nippes Köln-Nippes junction freight line to Köln-Ehrenfeld freight line to Köln West line from Bonn, line from Aachen Köln Hansaring turn-back line 0.8 Köln Hansaring (Stadtbahn) 0.9 00.0 Cologne Hbf 0.0 00.0 Cologne Crefelder station to Köln Messe/Deutz Source: German railway atlas[1]

The Left Lower Rhine line (German: Linksniederrheinische Strecke) is a main line on the left (western) bank of the Rhine in the lower Rhine region of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, running from Cologne to Cleves (Kleve) and formerly via Kranenburg to Nijmegen in the Netherlands. The Cologne–Krefeld section of the line was opened by the Cöln-Crefeld Railway Company in 1855 and is one of the oldest lines in Germany.

The 55 km-long section from Cologne via Neuss to Krefeld is electrified and continuously multi-track. The subsequent 65 km-long Krefeld–Kleve section is non-electrified and single-track north of Geldern. The section from Kleve to Nijmegen has been closed since 1991.

Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 11 trains run on the line from Cologne to Neuss, partly on separate S-Bahn track, including a separate loop, partly underground, through the Cologne district of Chorweiler.