Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen train

Trains from Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen start at €11.88 and take 1h 12m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen starts at €11.88 and takes 1h 12m door to door, run by 1 operator over 52 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 28 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 1h 12mDoor to door
  • 28mMoving
  • €11.88 to €19.04From
  • 06:33 to 06:33First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 1.7 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 28 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€11.88 to €19.04 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Departure times on this route

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €19.04Mon21
  2. about €12.44Tue22
  3. about €15.74Wed23
  4. about €14.09Thu24
  5. about €12.99Fri25
  6. about €12.99Sat26
  7. about €11.89Sun27
  8. about €11.88Mon28
  9. about €11.88Tue29
  10. about €11.88Wed30
  11. about €12.44Thu1
  12. about €11.88Fri2
  13. about €11.89Sat3
  14. about €11.88Sun4

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026

Cheapest€11.88
  1. VIAS VI398406:3328m07:01Castrop-Rauxel Süd stationRheinhausen station

Door to door 1h 12mCO2 1.7 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
VIAS€11.881h 11m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
  • VIAS

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A hotel room

A room in Rheinhausen for the night the train gets in

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Booking window

When to book Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €11.8890 days
  2. €11.8860 days
  3. €11.8845 days
  4. €11.8830 days
  5. €11.8821 days
  6. €11.8814 days
  7. €11.897 days
  8. €15.743 days
  9. €19.041 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 60 percent. The dearest point is €19.04, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €11.88Sun
  2. €11.88Mon
  3. €11.88Tue
  4. €11.88Wed
  5. €12.44Thu
  6. €11.88Fri
  7. €11.89Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Castrop-Rauxel

Rail
  • Castrop-Rauxel Süd station
  • Castrop-Rauxel Central Station
  • Castrop-Rauxel Hbf
The journey

What the journey looks like

How far it really runs
The route covers 52 km against 45 km in a straight line, a detour of 16 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Castrop-Rauxel at 06:33 and the last at 06:33, across 1 departure The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Train from Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen take?

The Train from Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen takes 1h 12m door to door, of which 28m is spent moving. The route runs 52 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Train from Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen cost?

The Train from Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen starts at €11.88 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €11.88. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Train from Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen?

1 operators run the Train from Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen: VIAS. Between them they file around 1 departure a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Train from Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen use?

The Train from Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen leaves from Castrop-Rauxel Süd station and arrives at Rheinhausen station. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Train from Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen?

Fares for the Train from Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 60 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen produce?

The Train from Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen produces about 1.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 52 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen?

Operators on the Train from Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 1h 12m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area The operators listed publish a service area covering both places. That evidences the corridor rather than a named service.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Castrop-Rauxel to Rheinhausen on 20 September 2026: 52 km of route against 45 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 1h 12m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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