page_title: Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway
section_title: Belvedere station
hierarchical_section_title: Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway / Route description / Belvedere station
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Haus Belvedere, Köln, Deutschland Verwendung überprüfen English: Haus Belvedere, Cologne, Germany check usage
context_page_description: The Cologne–Aachen high-speed line is the German part of the Trans-European transport networks project high-speed line Paris–Brussels–Cologne. It is not a newly built railway line, but a project to upgrade the existing railway line which was opened in 1841 by the Rhenish Railway Company. When it was continued into Belgium in 1843, it became the world's first international railway line.
  The line inside Germany has a length of about 70 kilometres. The first 40 km from Cologne to Düren have been rebuilt. Since 2002 the line allows for speeds up to 250 km/h. Separate tracks have been built parallel to the high-speed tracks for local S-Bahn traffic. The remaining line from Düren to Aachen allows speeds up to 160 km/h with some slower sections. Upgrades of Düren–Aachen are planned for the near future. In Belgium, the high-speed line is continued as HSL 3.
  Regional-Express services on the line are RE 1 and RE 9 with push-pull trains with six double-decker carriages. Long-distance trains are operated by Thalys between Paris and Cologne, three pairs of ICE 3M trains daily between Frankfurt and Brussels Monday to Saturday and a morning ICE 2 between Aachen and Berlin.
context_section_description: The first section of the Cologne–Aachen line, which was opened on 2 August 1839, ran to Müngersdorf, with the terminus of the line at Belvedere station (line-km 7.0) until the opening of Lövenich station. For excursion guests from downtown Cologne, a small station building that housed a restaurant was built on a hill north of the cutting through which the line ran. With the extension of the line to Aachen, Müngersdorf station, the “Belvedere house”, became less and less important. The station was never very important for operations and was closed before 1892. Today there are no operating facilities at the station. The station building, which has meanwhile been used as a residential building, still exists and is listed as the "oldest station in Germany in its original form" in the Cologne heritage list.
caption: Station building of the former Belvedere station
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