Notes

Cologne is very consistent: The eastern end, Cologne Trade Fair/Deutz, is a tangled mess, and the North-Western end, marked by Cologne Main Station Operating Station (yes, that’s the name. Köln Hauptbahnhof Betriebsbahnhof) and Cologne Hansaring, is a tangled mess as well. In between multiple sets of tracks heading to just about any direction and a huge passenger train storage yard, a DMU of class 628 looks positively lost.

It’s running on the Düsseldorf-Cologne Trade Fair/Deutz service (all regional trains coming from any western direction cross the Rhine and end in Deutz), although nobody who wanted to get from Düsseldorf to Cologne or vice-versa would actually use this train, as it does a wide arc through the countryside, connecting a variety of smaller towns with the two big ones at either end.

Bonus! Good observers can see one of the two TEE trainsets stored there, belonging to the class 103 that’s stored there as well. Sadly, it does not have the dome car (or if it does it’s hidden amazingly well), but still.