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Travelling by Train and Ferry DIRECTORY Train Routes and Ferry Ports in Germany
Århus,
Fredericia
Travelling around Germany by train is not the cheapest Travelling by Train Westerland Flensburg Copenhagen Ostseebad
(Sylt)
Binz
form of transport, but it is undoubtedly one of the most Brockenbahn/Harzer Niebüll Puttgarden Stralsund
comfortable. German trains are renowned for their 0 km 75 Kiel Warnemünde Rostock Seebad
punctuality, safety and cleanliness, though in peak travel Schmalspurbahn 0 miles 75 Neumünster Heringsdorf
season, visitors may feel that these are a little overrated. Tel (03943) 55 80. Lübeck Schwerin Pasewalk
Germany is also well served by ports to which ferries and ∑ hsb-wr.de Norddeich Hamburg Neustrelitz Szczecin
Mole
passenger ships operate. Ludwigslust
Deutsche Bahn Emden
Oldenburg Wittenberge
Emden
Tel 0180 699 66 33. Außenhafen Bremen Uelzen Stendal Frankfurt
Berlin (Oder)
Tel (08718) 80 80 66 (UK).
Potsdam
∑ bahn.de Amsterdam Bad Hanover Wolfsburg Warsaw,
Poznán
Schipol
Bentheim Osnabrück Magdeburg
∑ bahn.com Brunswick Lutherstadt
Rheine Wittenberg Krakow
Amsterdam Münster Bielefeld Hildesheim
Eurostar Recklinghausen Hamm Paderborn Halle (Saale) Leipzig Cottbus
Tel 08432 186 186. Gelsenkirchen Dortmund Göttingen Riesa Görlitz
Oberhausen Bochum Nordhausen Dresden Wroclaw
Duisburg
InterCity Express train Tel 01233 617 575 (UK). Düsseldorf Flughafen Essen Hagen Kassel Eisenach Weimar
∑ eurostar.com Düsseldorf Wuppertal Bebra Erfurt Jena
Arriving by Train Railway Stations Cologne Solingen Prague,
Brno,
There are regular rail services In large towns and cities, railway Eurotunnel Aachen Bonn Montabaur Giessen Fulda Saalfeld Vienna,
Limburg
into Germany from most stations are generally located in Tel 08443 35 35 35. Lichtenfels Budapest
European cities. Travelling by the centre. They include several ∑ eurotunnel.com Brussels, Koblenz Frankfurt am
Main
Paris
train from the UK usually costs shops (often open on Sundays), Wiesbaden Aschaffenburg Bamberg
Würzburg
Mainz
more than flying. The most car hire firms, hotel reservation Metronom Luxembourg Ffm Flughafen Darmstadt Erlangen
common routes into Germany bureaux, and other services, Trier Nuremberg
are to travel to Brussels by such as cash points, left (Bremen-Hamburg- Kaiserslautern Mannheim Heidelberg Ansbach Regensburg
Eurostar or take the Eurotunnel luggage provision and public Hanover-Göttingen) Saarbrücken Plattling
shuttle to France and continue toilets with shower facilities. Tel (0581) 97 164 164. Karlsruhe Treuchtlingen Vienna,
Linz
your journey by road or rail. Key Paris Baden-Baden Aalen Ingolstadt Passau
∑ der-metronom.de Stuttgart
Tickets and Fares Main railway lines Paris, Offenburg Augsburg Vienna, Graz,
Travelling by Train Rasender Roland Strasbourg Tübingen Ulm Munich Budapest,
Train fares are not overly Ferry port Salzburg Klagenfurt,
Zagreb,
Memmingen
Germany’s fastest trains, expensive in Germany and Tel (038301) 88 40 12. Friedrichshafen Ljubljana
InterCity Express (ICE), can express trains have a surcharge ∑ ruegensche- Freiburg Singen Kempten Kufstein Berchtesgaden
travel at more than 200 km/h (Zuschlag). For multiple train trips, Konstanz Lindau
(125 mph), which means that buy a BahnCard, which gives a baederbahn.de Basel Oberstdorf Garmisch- Innsbruck, Verona,
Partenkirchen
Milan, Venice
a journey from Hamburg to 25 or 50 per cent discount. Other- Tickets and Fares Zürich, Interlaken, Zürich Bregenz,
Brig, Chur
Munich takes only 6 hours. ICE wise, discounts are available only Zürich, Innsbruck
and ICE Sprinter trains (even if tickets are bought 3 or 7 days are entitled to a reduced-rate Arriving by Ferry north. There are many links
faster) operate on routes linking ahead and low-price seats have InterRail card. Non-European residents Visitors travelling to Germany by between German ports and
the largest cities. not sold out. ∑ interrail.eu can buy a Eurail global, regional car from the UK will have to other countries. The main ferry
Somewhat slower When planning or country pass. decide which crossing to use terminals are Kiel, Lübeck and
and less expensive are a lengthy stay in Eurail Train tickets can be bought (unless using the Channel Rostock on the Baltic Sea coast.
the InterCity (IC) trains, Germany and ∑ eurail.com and reservations made online, Tunnel). The crossings from Color Line runs a service from
which stop only at travelling around at travel agents or at the Reise­ Dover to Ostend, in Belgium, Oslo (Norway) to Kiel and
larger towns and the country, it is Ferries zentrum (travel centre) at railway or to Calais, in France, are the Scandlines operate between
cities. When travelling worth acquiring stations. It is simple to plan your shortest, while the Harwich to Rostock and Puttgarten to
over shorter Logo of German rail ways an InterRail card, Color Line journey yourself using this Hook of Holland route is useful Denmark. Scandlines also
distances it is often (Deutsche Bahn) which is available facility. Seat reservations cost €5 for those travelling from further run ferries from Denmark.
quicker to take the to every European Tel (045) 99 56 19 00 (calling from per person for a return trip if
Regional Express (RE) trains. citizen, regardless of age. outside of Germany). paid online with a ticket purchase,
Alternative service providers Regional tickets, offering ∑ colorline.com or €9 at a ticket counter.
like Metronom often have unlimited travel within a state Advance booking is necessary
lower fares than Deutsche for a set period of time, are also Scandlines for ICE Sprinter and Thalys trains
Bahn but run less frequently. available. Each year the variety (between Cologne and Aachen).
Train aficionados can enjoy a of discounted fares to which Tel (0381) 77 88 77 66. The sleeper CityNightLine trains
trip on one of the steam-engine this card entitles the bearer ∑ scandlines.de also require reservations. On all
trains travelling along the Baltic is extended, so it is worth other trains, reservations are
coast (Rasender Roland) or a checking out the full range. advisable when travelling at
mountain route (Brockenbahn). Schoolchildren and students peak times or in a group. Ship taking passengers to Helgoland
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