DB Fernverkehr and NS International have decreased the travel time of international trains between Amsterdam and Berlin by 30 minutes this week. Travel time has gone from 6.20 to 5.52 hours. Three measures have been taken to shorten the travel time between the Dutch and German capitals. First of all, there is no longer a […]
What? Erfurt has direct ICE connections to Leipzig/Berlin, Dresden, Frankfurt, and Nürnberg/München. It’s pretty well connected for a city of just 200k.
Ah so it’s just really shitty to reach from Hannover/Braunschweig/Wolfsburg/Magdeburg - also it seems that there is no good connection to the whole Ruhr area
As someone living in Magdeburg I always envy Hannover for how well connected that city is not just east to west but also north to south
Feels like 90% of the good connections go though that main station while my city doesn’t even get ICEs as a state capital…
Magdeburg has less than half the population of Hanover though…
I know - but small villages in Bavaria have a better train access because the local Bavarian party controlled the traffic ministry for decades
Also Hannover gets all the east-west connections and a city like Erfurt gets none even though they are on a similar trajectory south of the harz
What? Erfurt has direct ICE connections to Leipzig/Berlin, Dresden, Frankfurt, and Nürnberg/München. It’s pretty well connected for a city of just 200k.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Intercity-Express-Linien
Ah so it’s just really shitty to reach from Hannover/Braunschweig/Wolfsburg/Magdeburg - also it seems that there is no good connection to the whole Ruhr area