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Poststraße is an interchange station on the Cologne Stadtbahn lines 3, 4, 16 and 18 in the Cologne district of Innenstadt. The station lies on Poststraße, after which the station is named.

Poststraße
KVB light rail station
Poststraße station in 2008
General information
Location	Poststraße, 50676 Köln
Coordinates	50°55′51″N 6°57′0″E
Owned by	Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe
Platforms	2 side platforms
Connections	Bus
Construction
Structure type	underground
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	VRS: 2100[1]
History
Opened	1969
Services
Preceding station Cologne Stadtbahn Following station Neumarkt towards Görlinger-Zentrum Line 3 Severinstraße towards Thielenbruch Neumarkt towards Bocklemünd Line 4 Severinstraße towards Schlebusch Barbarossaplatz towards Bad Godesberg Stadthalle Line 16 Neumarkt towards Niehl Sebastianstraße Barbarossaplatz towards Bonn Hbf Line 18 Neumarkt towards Thielenbruch
Route map
Location

Currently the station serves 30 trains per hour per direction, the maximum possible with the current technical equipment and at grade-crossing just before the station, regularly, with line 18 running on 5 minute headways and the other 3 lines on 10 minutes each. Once the Nord-Süd Stadtbahn is finished, line 16 will run through the new tunnel, reducing the amount of trains per hour per direction to 24.[2]

The station was opened in 1969 and consists of two side platforms and two rail tracks.

Notable places nearby

• Church of St. Pantaleon
• Church of St. Georg
• Kleiner & Großer Griechenmarkt
• Hotel im Wasserturm
• Agrippabad

See also

• List of Cologne KVB stations

References

External links

• Media related to U-Bahnhof Poststraße at Wikimedia Commons
• station info page (in German)

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