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Tunnel. It passes the Wahner Heide nature reserve and through the airport, the airport station and back under the A59 completely underground. The route then returns to the surface and passes between
Eisdorf and Wahn on a ridge. After a 400-metre (440 yd) long embankment, the line connects with the new line.
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trains. As a result, two-thirds of the S-Bahn trains operating towards
Cologne must use the outer platform, with the low platforms designed in Germany for long-distance trains, 20 centimetres lower than appropriate for S-Bahn trains, thus creating a step between the platform and the carriage floor.
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The line runs for 15.19 kilometres (9.44 mi), with 2.50 kilometres (1.55 mi) of the line at ground level, 5.01 kilometres (3.11 mi) in cuttings, 1.01 kilometres (0.63 mi) on embankments, 5.26 kilometres (3.27 mi) in tunnel, and 1.41 kilometres (0.88 mi) on bridges and
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started or stopped at the airport station. This created operational problems, as the airport station was planned as a through station only and no turning facilities were built. Since the station has limited facilities, the terminating ICE trains took up platform space properly reserved for S-Bahn
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After passing through the 1,047-metre (1,145 yd) Schloss-Röttgen tunnel, the line turns to run parallel and to the north of the A59 in a northeasterly direction to the
Airport interchange and the Porz-Grengel motorway junction. It then enters into the 4.210-kilometre (2.616 mi) Airport
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underpass it swings towards the southeast and crosses farmland in a cutting. The newly established
Frankfurter Strasse station connects the industrial zone of Gremberghoven and the Airport Business Park to public transport. The station is served by the S-Bahn and the S-Bahn-like
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line RE 8 operates over the airport loop every hour. However, the first train from the south reaches the airport after 7 AM and on
Sundays, after 10 AM. Getting to the airport earlier than this from Bonn and Koblenz is only possible on significantly slower indirect services.
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The connection of the airport loop railway was approved by the
Federal Government on 20 December 1989 as part of the decision to build the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line on its current alignment. The construction of the Airport Link began on 4 December 2000 at
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Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed line, few trains run along both lines. The main mode of transport on the airport loop is S-Bahn line S13 between
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