| Deusche Bahn(DB)-Germany DB English Timetables Link to Private / Heritage Rail |
This is the most reliable for searching Timetable
all over the Europe. Other railroad home
pages as Britrail, Latvian, croatin and slovenian
rail are using DB english page for seeking
international trains. We can know the timetable
to Athens and Istanbul, moreover from Moskow
to Vladivostok or Peking(Beijing) including
intermediate stations.
In the left column, you can find the words
" English / Français / Italiano " and clicking of the appropriate language
will shows the timetable page in accordance.
. In the "Verbindungensuche" page
in german, the sign of English appears at right side under the blue band and clicking of this also leads
into the "Connections - Query page"
in English. This is a very powerful to find
timetables in the most parts of Europe. This page covers so called west Europe widely.
Although Lisbon, Dublin, Helsinki, St.Petersburg., Moskow, Zagrev, Bucharest and Sofia are accessible
as far as the international trains go,. search
for national or inland tour in Ireland, Finland
and C.I.S countries are impossible. In Norway
and Sweden we can search timetables to the
most northern station, as Bode and Narvik.
East European countries are also covered
as far as political circumstances are stable
and operations of trains are stabilized.
For description of start station and destination,
various expressions in diffrent languages
are allowed. For example Geneva, Geneve and
Genf, London and Londre, München, Munchen
and Munich, Copenhagen, Kobenhavn and precise København
in Danish are all acceptable. Umlaut in german
and other phonetic signs are not required.
Use of the capital letters is not obligatory.
Compared to this German Rail Timetables,
home pages of other railroads companies written
in various languages are rather strict to
accept English or other foreign expression
of proper nouns.
For travel in Germany, Bus timetables are
also included., Therefore, input as Schloß (Schloss) Charlottenburg in
Berlin, Schloß Sanssouci or Schloß Cecilienhof in Potsdam, or Hohenschwangau (bus stop for Schloß Neuschwanstein) are available
for depature point or destination. Numbers
of bus line or tram will be demonstrated
with transfer station. As total names of
bus stops are demonstrated successively on
clicking Itinerary Plus, we can easily avoid missing bus stop to
get off.
For dating use of calendar clicking on next
month and so on is requested, if you find
the date of your travel, then click the Paste selected date and write the time optimal. Input age of
client to show price of tickets. Then click
again on Search Connection,
If departure station or destination is not
clearly identified, the expression "Your input "---" is ambiguous.
Please choose from the selection list." will appear and selection from pull
down menu is requested. Hbf is abbreviation
of Hauptbahnhof, which means central or main
station in English.
Buying Ticket−On the next page, selection of Ticket/reservation
or reservation only are requested. After
inputs of Numbers of seats: Non Smoker/Smoker.
Open seat section / Compartment. Window seats.
Table seats and others, Inputs of private
information are requested. E-mail will come
mentioning
Vielen Dank fur Ihre Bestellung.
Ihre Reisedokumente wurden erstellt und werden
Ihnen per Post zugesandt.
DB Reise & Touristik Service-Center Neue
Medien
The meaning is "Thank you for reservations, The Ticket
will be sent by ordinary mail".
I have received the ticket in 10 days after
my order.
METROPOLITAN
Köln-Düsseldorf-Essen-Hamburg
The trains have the images of quiet office.running
between Köln-Düsseldorf-Essen-Hamburg.
You can find "DIREKT ZUR HOME"
at the rightcorne of the bottom. After clicking
this, "FAHRPLAN & PREISE" at
the right below is to see the timetables
of MET trains. "VON: NACH, DATUM"
are from:, to:, and date respectively. You
may select from pull down menu % calender.．Köln,
and Düsseldorf are not correctly written
due to Umlaut signs in German.
DB Nachtzug
DB Night Train
EN EuroNight
Euronight covers widely in central europe
and moreover Moskva, Ljubljana, Budapest,
Paris and Roma
Select from pull down menu the left column from above:
Hin- u. Rückfahrt = go and return
Einfach = one way
Hinfahrt = go
Einsteig = ascend
Aussteig = descend
Datum = date
Jaar = year
Monat = month
Tag = day
No responce means the train is not running.:
Rückfahrt = return
input as above.
Suchen = Search
Löschen = Delete
Sitzwagen = sitting seat
Liegewagen = couchette
Schlafwagen mit Waschgelegenheit = sleeping
car with a Basin
Select according to price and your plan
Weiter = proceed
Pay with a Credit Card
Links to other german railway-sites
ICE-railfaneurope.net
ICE-Fansite-Galerie
MVP Transrapid TVE Service
Thursday, September 02, 2004
