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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 the Deutsche Bahn as the Hauptbahnhof (German for "main station"), of which there are 122 in total.
The UIC Country Code for Germany is 80. Urban rail in Germany includes rapid transit (known as U-Bahn), commuter rail (known as S-Bahn), Stadtbahn , trams and funiculars (e.g. in Dresden). Suspension railways (Schwebebahn) are present in two cities, Dresden and Wuppertal, in addition to the H-Bahn at
** 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).
In the city of Frankfurt (Main), trains stop at the Hauptbahnhof (main station) and the airport and continue to Wiesbaden via Mainz. Until the timetable change in December 2015, a train pair ran from Eisenach via Bebra, Kassel, Paderborn and Hamm to Düsseldorf. There are services every two hours between Dresden and Wiesbaden.
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 ...
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.
Rapid transit in Germany consists of four U-Bahn systems and 14 S-Bahn systems. The U-Bahn, commonly understood to stand for Untergrundbahn ('underground railway'), are conventional rapid transit systems that run mostly underground, while the S-Bahn or Stadtschnellbahn ('city rapid railway') are commuter rail services, that may run underground in the city center and have metro-like ...
West German trains ran through East Germany. This 1977 view shows how barriers were made near the tracks to keep people away. After the introduction of the TGV in France, the ICE system of high speed passenger trains was developed. Significant stretches of new high speed track, like the Hanover-Würzburg high-speed rail line, had to be laid or ...
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