Going North from Cologne:
From Cologne railway station the train takes only 20 minutes to reach
To
Hamburg it takes 4 hours.
Going South from Cologne
From Cologne it takes only 1 hour to
Frankfurt.
Trains travel from Northern Germany (Hamburg) via Cologne and Frankfurt all the way to Southern Germany (Munich, Stuttgart).
Direct Thalys trains to
Paris go via Brussels.
In 2003 a railwaystation at the
Cologne airport was under construction.