Düsseldorf Airport (Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen) is a railway station in Düsseldorf, Germany on the Cologne–Duisburg line that connects Düsseldorf Airport to Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte and long-distance trains, most of them ICE trains. Opened in May 2000, the new railway station has the capacity of 300 train departures per day.

History

The federal government provided €14.6 million towards the construction of Düsseldorf Airport station. It was inaugurated on 26 May 2000, in the presence of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, Wolfgang Clement. The station cost DM 125 million to build and went into operation on 28 May 2000.

On 1 July 2002, the SkyTrain was opened. The track is 2.5 km (1.6 mi) long and 23 m (75 ft) high. After the commissioning of the SkyTrain had been delayed by a year due to software problems, the train stopped operations six times in the first two weeks of public operations and was then closed to 26 August.

Current operations

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Up to 300 trains stop here each day. It consists of a mainline station and an S-Bahn station, which share an entrance building. The mainline station has two platform tracks and in between there are two through tracks, running in each direction. These through tracks for trains not stopping at the station allow operations at speeds of up to 200 km/h (120 mph). The S-Bahn station lies to the west of the mainline station and also has two platform tracks. The SkyTrain station is further to the west.

Train services

Long distance

The station is served by the following long-distance services (as of 2022):

Line	Route	Frequency
ICE 10	Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin – Hannover – Bielefeld – Hamm – Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf (– Cologne)	Hourly
IC 51	Gera – Jena – Erfurt – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Hamm – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf	One train pair
Eurostar	Paris-Nord – Brussels-South – Liège-Guillemins – Aachen – Cologne – Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Essen – Dortmund	Individual services

Regional

In local passenger service, Düsseldorf Airport is served by several regional and S-Bahn lines (as of 2020):

Line	Route	Frequency
RE 1 NRW-Express	Aachen – Eschweiler – Düren – Horrem – Cologne – Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen – Bochum – Dortmund – Hamm	60 min
RE 2 Rhein-Haard-Express	Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen – Gelsenkirchen – Recklinghausen – Münster	60 min
RE 3 Rhein-Emscher-Express	Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Oberhausen – Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof – Gelsenkirchen – Herne – Dortmund – Hamm	60 min
RE 5 Rhein-Express	Wesel – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Bonn – Remagen – Andernach – Koblenz	60 mins
RE 6 Rhein-Weser-Express	Minden – Herford – Bielefeld – Hamm – Dortmund – Essen – Mülheim – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf – Neuss – Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport	60 min
RE 11 Rhein-Hellweg-Express	Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen – Dortmund – Hamm – Paderborn (– Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe)	60 min
RE 19 Rhein-IJssel-Express	Arnhem – Emmerich – Wesel – Oberhausen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf	60 mins
S1	Dortmund – Bochum – Essen – Mülheim – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf – Hilden  – Solingen	30 min 20 min (between Duisburg and Solingen on week days)