Does anyone know if the SBahn or the DB trains from the airport to the HBF run at regular intervals? My husband and FIL arrived there today and were told they needed to take the bus to HBF. My husband isn't sure if he understood the guy to say it didn't run at regular intervals and the bus was there only way or if there was work on the tracks. They had just missed the train waiting at the ticket machine. My daughter and I are arriving there Saturday morning and just want to make sure I know what I'm supposed to do.
Here is the scoop. At least for tomorrow this is the note at Bahn website going from the Flughafen Terminal S-Bahn station per Google Translate:
Partial losses between Neuss Hbf and Dusseldorf Airport Terminal. We have set up a replacement bus service between Neuss Hbf and Düsseldorf Hbf for you. Please also use the trains of the lines RE 1, RE 2, RE 6, RE 5, RE 11, RE 3 between Düsseldorf Hbf and Dusseldorf Airport
If you don't want to use the replacement bus, you need to take the monorail to The Duesseldorf Airport mainline station where trains are running normally to Duesseldorf Hbf. Buy your tickets before boarding the monorail (there are machines in the monorail stations) because it is not free but part of the regional transit system.
Thank you for the info. Is the monorail the "sky train?"
I guess, in German it is Schwebebahn. It is a suspended monorail that connects Terminal A & B and the parking garage and the mainline station out at the end of the runway.
Travelers of DUS can use bus and train connections - in general as well as to / from Hbf (main station). Some buses leave directly from terminal building (e.g. to Hbf.). Trains and other buses from train station which is only connected to terminal by SkyTrain.
Infos about bus connections to / from Düsseldorf airport and about train connections (follow link on right side to find connections).
All infos about the SkyTrain you will find on website of Düsseldorf airport (DUS).
The name "Schwebebahn" is more used for rail constructions with hanging cabins.
Which is exactly what the "Skytrain" is. It is the term used on the Bahn website.
Thank you all!