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English: Map of German rail network. Bold lines = main lines, narrow lines = branch lines. Data source: Openstreetmap. ... You are free: to share – to copy ...
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]
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.
For railway companies that are no longer in existence, see the List of former German railway companies. The bulk of the railway network in Germany belongs to DB Netz , a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG – this situation is a relic from the time when the Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Reichsbahn had a monopoly.
The passenger rail service in North Rhine-Westphalia is one of the densest train services in Germany, comprising 100 million train kilometers and is mainly operated on an integrated timetable, which has been in effect since 1998 with the introduction its current version, known as 1998 NRW-Takt.
Harzer Schmalspurbahnen, 140 km network consisting of the Selketalbahn, Harzquerbahn and the Brockenbahn, the largest narrow-gauge network in Germany; Industriebahn Halle; closed in 1992. Südharz-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft; closed in 1963; 750 mm (2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) gauge lines. Mansfelder Bergwerksbahn; heritage railway on remaining 11.8 km
The railway network in Germany dates back to 1835 when the first tracks were laid on a 6 km (3.7 mi) route between Nuremberg and Fürth. The Deutsche Reichsbahn operated from 1920 [ 19 ] through the Weimar and Nazi eras until 1949, [ 20 ] when it was split between East and West Germany into two successor entities, Deutsche Reichsbahn and ...