Bonn-Beuel station is on the East Rhine Railway in the Bonn district of Beuel in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Infrastructure The station was opened on 1 March 1871 and has three platform tracks and several sidings. Somewhat hidden from the station building, there are some tracks which are used by the Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn for special passenger services, especially during the Pützchen's market (a five or six day fair usually held in September). In addition, there is also a freight shed at the station. It, including its unloading and loading roads, as well as the entrance building, the two platforms and the platform canopy are heritage-listed. The station has some special features compared to neighbouring stations. The extensive track layout for local freight transport (which was usual for German stations until the 1980s) have not been removed in Beuel but are almost completely preserved and operational. For example, the freight shed can still be reached via its access road, which is very rare for stations of this category in Germany. It is also unusual that the other loading tracks (including the head and side loading ramps) are still ready for use and can be reached both by road and rail. Private railway companies and the DB itself regularly use this infrastructure, which is now unique in the region; for example, the Circus Roncalli uses Beuel station during its visits to Bonn. Container goods, wood and railway gravel, among other things, are loaded at Beuel station. While the staffed signal boxes on the Right Rhine line north and south of Beuel were closed in 2011 and replaced by electronic interlockings, the signal box in Beuel station remains operational and is still permanently occupied by a dispatcher. This relatively modern signal box south of the entrance building replaced two existing signal boxes in 1985 (one in the area of the freight yard and a dispatcher box next to the bridge on auf dem Grendt street). Services The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. It is served hourly by Regional-Express service RE 8 (Rhein-Erft-Express) and Regionalbahn service RB 27 (Rhein-Erft-Bahn), which complement each another to provide an approximate half-hourly service. If long-distance passenger trains are diverted from the West Rhine Railway to the East Rhine line, Bonn-Beuel station serves Bonn in place of Bonn Hauptbahnhof. There is a stop in front of the station serving tram line 62