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About 1,658 km (1,030 mi) are high-speed railway lines. [3] Germany has the 6th longest railway network in the world, and the largest in Europe after Russia. [5] Germany was ranked 4th among national European rail systems in the 2017 European Railway Performance Index assessing intensity of use, quality of service and safety. [6]
Three-lane autobahn An airport taxiway crossing the Bundesautobahn 14. Germany has approximately 650,000 km of roads, [4] of which 231,000 km are non-local roads. [5] The road network is extensively used with nearly 2 trillion km travelled by car in 2005, in comparison to just 70 billion km travelled by rail and 35 billion km travelled by plane.
Construction of the first high-speed rail in Germany began shortly after that of the French LGVs (lignes à grande vitesse, high-speed lines). However, legal battles caused significant delays, so that the German Intercity-Express (ICE) trains were deployed ten years after the TGV network was established.
Due to the number of railway stations it shows a selection of the principal stations and links to related state articles. Where there are 2 or more passenger stations in a large town or city, the most important is often designated by Deutsche Bahn as Hauptbahnhof (German for "central station"), of which there are 122 in total.
** By Rems Railway only the section from Stuttgart to Aalen is implied today; KBS 786 includes the whole route to Nuremberg however. Originally the Rems Valley Railway ran further to Nördlingen (see KBS 995), this section is designated by the DB today as the Ries Railway (derived from the landscape of the Nördlinger Ries).
Select Stadtbahn Lines of the Cologne Stadtbahn and the Bonn Stadtbahn use sections of the rail lines of the Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln railway. Within the cities of Cologne and Bonn these Lines are integrated in the Stadtbahn Rhein-Sieg. Lines sections with a frequency of more than 10 minutes, usually in 5-minute intervals, are written in ...
Line 50 is the only east-west ICE line in central Germany. It begins in the east in Dresden and runs via Riesa to Leipzig. After Erfurt, the line runs on the new line. In the city of Frankfurt (Main), trains stop at the Hauptbahnhof (main station) and the airport and continue to Wiesbaden via Mainz.
The List of railway routes in Baden-Württemberg provides a list of all railway routes in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. This includes Intercity-Express, Intercity, Interregio-Express, Regional-Express, Metropolexpress, Regionalbahn and S-Bahn services. The information is up to date to February 2021.