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Trains to Aachen

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Just hop on the Eurostar from London St Pancras, Ebbsfleet or Ashford, connect with the service you want and speed straight to your destination.

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About Aachen and the train services available

Aachen is a spa town in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. Aachen is located along Germany's borders with Belgium and the Netherlands and is some 61 km to the south west of Cologn.

Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof (Central Station) serves two main lines to Cologn, Monchengladbach and Liege as well as branch lines to Heerlen, Alsdorf, Stolberg and Eschweiler. High speed ICE trains depart towards Brussels, Cologn, Frankfurt and Paris.

Local services call at the four smaller stations that also serve Aachen: Aachen West, Aachen Schanz, Aachen-Rothe Erde and Eilendorf.