Welcome to Cologne with Ticket to Ride. Today we undertake a journey from Cologne, the capital city of the state of Nordrhein Westfalen to Hanover the capital of the state of Niedersachsen. TTR109  takes us as far as Hamm,  a small city at the eastern extremity of the Ruhr. Our train is ICE 857 the 09.49 from Cologne Hauptbahnhof to Berlin via Wuppertal, Hagen, Hamm, Bielefeld and Hanover. She combines with ICE 847 at Hamm. 847 started at Bonn, avoided Cologne Hauptbahnhof by using the new Deutz ICE station and runs to Hamm via Düsseldorf, Essen and Dortmund. RT 75mins