Trains to London from Gleis 5 at Köln Hbf? It's bold

The Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger put out an intriguing article yesterday, stating that four trains a day could depart Köln Hbf for London in the 2030s, and this will be done from Gleis 5 (Platform 5) at the station, and passengers will get to the platform from a terminal building on a new bridge.This idea is bold and it is interesting, and it is not a way to solve the Köln Hbf - London headaches I had previously thought of. When I wrote my #CrossChannelRail report late last year, I concluded Köln Hbf was just too complicated to solve, and that building a London terminal at Köln/Bonn Flughafen station, or even Horrem, would make more sense.I would also encourage anyone not deep into the technicalities of all of this to read my report, as it explains in some depth some of the other aspects of the Channel Tunnel conundrums that this article will only briefly touch with regard to Köln Hbf.The most important is the need to conduct both bag scans and border controls before a passenger boards a…