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Duisburg and Koblenz train stations

I'm leaving Amsterdam on Friday and traveling to Bacharach. My DB ticket has me going from Centraal to Duisburg to Koblenz to Bacharach. It gives my track number from Amsterdam, but no information about Duisburg - except that it is only a 6 minutes change over. Is Duisburg a small station that will be easy to figure out?

Also in Koblenz I am coming in on track 4 and leaving on 5 North. I've only got 7 min there for a change over. Are these tracks next to each other? Or does the "North" behind the 5 mean I'll be needing to move really fast?

Any help is appreciated. All these changes in places I've never been make me nervous. Since I have a reserved seat, I can't miss my connection without having to buy a new ticket.

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I have the layout of Koblenz Hbf on my website. Tracks 4 and 5 are across a wide platform. There is only one track 5, it goes completely through the staion. The north end, 5 Nord (north), is the north end of the track, and it is used for short trains, which will only be using only the north half of the platform. There is also a track 105, which comes in from the south but doesn't go entirely through the station.

I'm sure I have Duisburg in my database, but not on my website. I'll try to put it on for you.

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Duisburg has 12 tracks (very small?).

The layout is on the German Rail website, here.

Note: Tracks 1 and 2 share a platform, also 3 and 4, 5 and 6. There is no track 7. Then 8 and 9, etc.

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Thanks Lee. Do you have information about Bingen and Frankfurt? Those are the two stations I will be going through on my way from Bacharach to Berlin. In Bingen I have to go from track 201 to 101 in 5 min (but I'm guessing those might be next to each other - hoping so anyway). In Frankfurt I've got to from track 20 to track 9, but I have 24 min, so I'm guess that shouldn't be too hard as long as "Alles ist in Ordnung." :)

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Bingen has an unusual numbering system. The station building sits on an island platform between two sets of three tracks. The three tracks on the north are 101-103. On the south side it 201-203. 101 and 201 are adjacent to the station island. Next to each other? Well, maybe a 50m walk, but no connecting tunnels.

Frankfurt(M)Hbf is a stub station, tracks coming in and terminating, so you can walk to the end of the track and go across the connecting platform to your new track. Tracks 20 to 9 is about 10 platforms.