There are 13 ways to get from Scunthorpe to Cologne by train (Eurostar), train, bus, car, car train, plane, or car ferry
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train
best- Take the train from Doncaster to King's Cross
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-MidiEil
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Koeln HbfIce
8h 1m€143–551Train, bus
cheapest- Take the train from Scunthorpe to Sheffield
- Take the bus from Sheffield to Brussel Eurolines Busstation
- Take the train from Brussels-Nord to Köln Hbf79
15h 28m€54–131Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Scunthorpe to Folkestone
- Take the car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Drive from Calais-Fréthun to Cologne
8h 41mTrain to Manchester Airport, fly to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Take the train from Scunthorpe to Manchester Piccadilly
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)MAN - CGN
6h 15m€73–252Bus
- Take the bus from Bus Station to Broad Marsh Bus Station152
- Take the bus from Broad Marsh Bus Station to London Victoria
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Cologne Airport CGN
20h 44m€63–149Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Scunthorpe to Port of Dover
- Take the car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Drive from Calais to Cologne
9h 49m€161–236Train to Manchester Airport, fly to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Take the train from Scunthorpe to Manchester Piccadilly
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)MAN - DUS
6h 47m€103–319Fly Humberside Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Fly from Humberside Airport (HUY) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)HUY - DUS
7h 30m€123–721Train, train to Birmingham Airport, fly to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Take the train from Scunthorpe to Sheffield
- Take the train from Sheffield to Birmingham New Street
- Fly from Birmingham Airport (BHX) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)BHX - DUS
7h 10m€126–361Train, train to London Stansted Airport, fly to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Take the train from Doncaster to Peterborough
- Take the train from Peterborough to Stansted Airport
- Fly from London Stansted Airport (STN) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)STN - CGN
7h 29m€78–338Train to Leeds Bradford International Airport, fly to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Take the train from Doncaster to Leeds
- Fly from Leeds Bradford International Airport (LBA) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)LBA - CGN
5h 58m€122–354Fly Humberside Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, train
- Fly from Humberside Airport (HUY) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)HUY - AMS
- Take the train from Schiphol Airport to Arnhem Centraal
- Take the train from Arnhem Centraal to Köln Hbf
8h 18m€389–823Train to Leeds Bradford International Airport, fly to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, train
- Take the train from Doncaster to Leeds
- Fly from Leeds Bradford International Airport (LBA) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)LBA - AMS
- Take the train from Schiphol Airport to Arnhem Centraal
- Take the train from Arnhem Centraal to Köln Hbf
9h 7m€136–407
Scunthorpe to Cologne by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Scunthorpe to Cologne is to train and bus which costs €50 - €140 and takes 15h 28m.
The fastest way to get from Scunthorpe to Cologne is to train and fly which takes 5h 58m and costs €120 - €360.
No, there is no direct train from Scunthorpe to Cologne. However, there are services departing from Scunthorpe and arriving at Koeln Hbf via Doncaster, London St Pancras Intl and Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 8h 1m.
The distance between Scunthorpe and Cologne is 878 km.
The best way to get from Scunthorpe to Cologne without a car is to train which takes 8h 1m and costs €140 - €550.
It takes approximately 8h 1m to get from Scunthorpe to Cologne, including transfers.
Scunthorpe to Cologne train services, operated by London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER), depart from Doncaster station.
The best way to get from Scunthorpe to Cologne is to train which takes 8h 1m and costs €140 - €550. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €60 - €150 and takes 20h 44m, you could also fly, which costs €120 - €750 and takes 7h 30m.
Cologne is 1h ahead of Scunthorpe. It is currently 1:05 AM in Scunthorpe and 2:05 AM in Cologne.
Scunthorpe to Cologne train services, operated by London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER), arrive at King's Cross station.
What companies run services between Scunthorpe, England and Cologne, Germany?
You can take a train from Scunthorpe to Koeln Hbf via Doncaster, London Kings Cross, London St Pancras Intl, and Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi in around 8h 1m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Bus Station to Köln Messe/Deutz Bf via Broad Marsh Bus Station, London Victoria, Cologne Airport CGN, and Flughafen Köln/Bonn Bf in around 20h 44m.
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- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–250
Flights from Humberside Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–700
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–250
Flights from Humberside Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–650
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–280
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €40–160
Flights from London Stansted Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €35–150
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €50–280
Flights from Humberside Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–650
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–280
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–200
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–180
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €50–200
Flights from London Stansted Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €35–160
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–210
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–290
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Tuesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–290
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €110–370
- Phone
- +44 345 722 5333
- customers@lner.co.uk
- Website
- lner.co.uk
Train from Doncaster to King's Cross
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 38m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €29–100
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Doncaster to Peterborough
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €24–60
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Doncaster to Leeds
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €11–17
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 071 0222
- Website
- hulltrains.co.uk
Train from Doncaster to King's Cross
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €19–70
- Website
- https://www.hulltrains.co.uk/
Train from Doncaster to King's Cross
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €23–60
- Website
- https://www.grandcentralrail.com/
Train from Doncaster to Peterborough
- Ave. Duration
- 45 min
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €10–28
- Website
- https://www.grandcentralrail.com/
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €80–320
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 51m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €40–110
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Brussels-Nord to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Arnhem Centraal to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 44m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- tpecustomer.relations@tpexpress.co.uk
- Website
- tpexpress.co.uk
Train from Scunthorpe to Sheffield
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €11–30
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
Train from Scunthorpe to Manchester Piccadilly
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €22–60
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 800 200 6060
- enquiries@northernrailway.co.uk
- Website
- northernrailway.co.uk
Train from Scunthorpe to Sheffield
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €9–12
- Website
- https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/
- Standard
- €9–12
Train from Doncaster to Leeds
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €4–13
- Website
- https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- belgiantrain.be
Train from Brussels-Nord to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 1m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €19–28
- Website
- https://www.belgiantrain.be/en
- 2nd Class
- €19–28
- 1st Class
- €29–45
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-en
Train from Sheffield to Birmingham New Street
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–75
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Peterborough to Stansted Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15–40
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Doncaster to Leeds
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €25–26
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- 03457 125 678
- Website
- eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk
Train from Doncaster to Peterborough
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 2m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €26–45
- Website
- https://www.eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- enquiry@sleeper.scot
- Website
- sleeper.scot
Train from Doncaster to Peterborough
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €70–90
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- €240–260
- Sleeper Seat
- €70–90
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- €270–310
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Schiphol Airport to Arnhem Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €17–55
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- €17–25
- 1st Class
- €30–55
Train from Arnhem Centraal to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €26–85
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- €26–40
- 1st Class
- €50–85
- Phone
- +421 55 680 73 06
- onlinepredaj@eurobus.sk
- Website
- eurobus.sk
Bus from Sheffield to Brussel Eurolines Busstation
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 42m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €26–31
- Website
- https://www.eurobus.sk/en
- Phone
- 08717 81 81 81
- Website
- nationalexpress.com
Bus from Bus Station to Broad Marsh Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €11–22
- Website
- https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
Bus from Broad Marsh Bus Station to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €8–45
- Website
- https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Broad Marsh Bus Station to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €7–21
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from London Victoria to Cologne Airport CGN
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 40m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €40–60
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €35–45
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
- Car
- €75–190
- On Foot
- €35–45
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