Rhein-Express

RE 5 Rhein-Express
Overview
Locale	North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Service
Route number	420 (Emmerich–Duisburg) 415 (Duisburg–Cologne) 470 (Cologne–Koblenz)
Technical
Line length	226 km (140 mi)
Operating speed	160 km/h (100 mph)
Route map Legend 0 Wesel 3 Friedrichsfeld (Niederrhein) (every two hours) 8 Voerde (Niederrhein) 13 Dinslaken 19 Oberhausen-Holten (every two hours) 23 Oberhausen-Sterkrade 27 Oberhausen Hbf ICE, IC 35 Duisburg Hbf ICE, EC, IC 52 Düsseldorf Flughafen ICE, IC 59 Düsseldorf Hbf ICE, EC, IC 69 Düsseldorf-Benrath 86 Leverkusen Mitte 94 Köln-Mülheim 98 Köln Messe/Deutz ICE 99 Cologne Hbf THA, ICE, EC, IC 104 Köln Süd 115 Brühl 133 Bonn Hbf ICE, EC, IC Bonn UN Campus (since 2017) 140 Bonn-Bad Godesberg NRW RLP state border 149 Oberwinter 153 Remagen EC, IC 157 Sinzig (Rhein) 163' Bad Breisig 174 Andernach ICE, EC, IC 191 Koblenz Stadtmitte 192 Koblenz Hbf ICE, EC, IC Source: German railway atlas[1]

The Rhein-Express is a Regional-Express (RE 5 (RRX)) service, which generally follows the Rhine (German: Rhein) river. It runs daily every hour from 5 am to 9 pm from Wesel via Oberhausen, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Remagen and Andernach to Koblenz, in the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. It is the fourth-most used regional express line in the VRR network with approximately 48,000 passengers a day.^[2]

Until the timetable change in December 2016, the Rhein-Express ran to/from Emmerich. Operations on this section and the additional services provided by Regionalbahn service RB 35 (Der Weseler) have since been operated as part of the Rhein-IJssel-Express (RE 19).