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| 186 | | 186 | ||
| Bad Doberan – Ostseebad Kühlungsborn West | | Bad Doberan – Ostseebad Kühlungsborn West | ||
| | | Five train pairs in winter; more in summer | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 190 | | 190 | ||
| Bergen auf Rügen – Sassnitz-Mukran | | Bergen auf Rügen – Sassnitz-Mukran Fährhafen | ||
| Two | | Two train pairs on Saturdays only from May to mid-October in 2023. Details of 2024 service awaited. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 209.20 | | 209.20 | ||
| Line 92: | Line 92: | ||
| 209.27 | | 209.27 | ||
| Wensickendorf – Schmachtenhagen | | Wensickendorf – Schmachtenhagen | ||
| | | Weekend daytime service only | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 209.73 | | 209.73 | ||
| Kyritz Am Bürgerpark – Pritzwalk | | Kyritz Am Bürgerpark – Pritzwalk | ||
| | | Four train pairs on weekdays; three at weekends | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 209.74 | | 209.74 | ||
| Pritzwalk West – Pritzwalk – Meyenburg | | Pritzwalk West – Pritzwalk – Meyenburg – Plau am See | ||
| Five | | Five train pairs on weekdays. Three train pairs at weekends between Pritzwalk and Meyenburg, extending to Plau am See in the summer. Very limited schoolday-only service to Pritzwalk West. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| RB TES | | ''RB TES'' | ||
| Erkner – Fangschleuse Tesla Süd | | Erkner – Fangschleuse Tesla Süd | ||
| No weekend service | | No weekend service on this recently-opened branch | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 238 | | 238 | ||
| Zittau – Kurort Jonsdorf/Kurort Oybin | | Zittau – Kurort Jonsdorf / Kurort Oybin | ||
| | | Two train pairs Zittau – Jonsdorf and four Bertsdorf – Oybin for most of the winter. Four pairs Zittau – Bertsdorf in the summer; better on the rest of the route. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 257 | | 257 | ||
| Line 115: | Line 115: | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 326 | | 326 | ||
| Drei Annen Hohne – Eisfelder Talmühle | | Drei Annen Hohne – Eisfelder Talmühle – Ifield Neanderklinik | ||
| | | Very limited winter service of between one and three trains each way | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 333 | | 333 | ||
| Alexisbad – Hasselfelde and Eisfelder Talmühle | | Alexisbad – Hasselfelde and Eisfelder Talmühle | ||
| | | Only two train pairs in the winter | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 357.1 | | 357.1 | ||
| Einbeck Mitte – Einbeck BBS/PS-Speicher | | Einbeck Mitte – Einbeck BBS/PS-Speicher | ||
| Limited service weekdays, no service at weekends on this | | Limited service weekdays, no service at weekends on this recently reopened section | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 397 | | 397 | ||
| Line 136: | Line 136: | ||
| 509 | | 509 | ||
| Radebeul Ost – Radeburg | | Radebeul Ost – Radeburg | ||
| Five | | Five train pairs daily; only two beyond Moritzburg. Closed most of March and November. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 513 | | 513 | ||
| Freital Hainsberg – Kurort Kipsdorf | | Freital Hainsberg – Kurort Kipsdorf | ||
| | | Three train pairs daily; only two beyond Dippoldiswalde. Closed most of March and November. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 517 | | 517 | ||
| Cranzahl – Vejprty (CZ) [– Chomutov] | | Cranzahl – Vejprty (CZ) [– Chomutov] | ||
| Three | | Three train pairs on summer weekends only in 2023. Details of 2024 timetable awaited. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 518 | | 518 | ||
| Cranzahl – Kurort Oberwiesenthal | | Cranzahl – Kurort Oberwiesenthal | ||
| Four | | Four train pairs daily; closed most of March and November | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 544 | | 544 | ||
| Bad Brambach – Plesná (CZ) | | Bad Brambach – Plesná (CZ) [– Cheb] | ||
| | | Five train pairs daily | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 566 | | 566 | ||
| Ilmenau – Rennsteig | | Ilmenau – Rennsteig | ||
| | | Four train pairs, weekends and holidays only | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 662.1 | | 662.1 | ||
| Monsheim – Münchweiler (Alsenz) | | Monsheim – Münchweiler (Alsenz) | ||
| Summer Sundays only. Service | | Summer Sundays only. Service expected to resume on 1 April 2024 after four-year pause. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 666 | | 666 | ||
| Line 168: | Line 168: | ||
| 675.1 | | 675.1 | ||
| Bundenthal-Rumbach – Hinterweidenthal Ost | | Bundenthal-Rumbach – Hinterweidenthal Ost | ||
| Summer Wednesdays, Saturdays | | Summer Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays only | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 692 | | 692 | ||
| Perl – Thionville [France] | | Perl – Thionville [France] | ||
| | | Two train pairs on weekends only. A full service is expected to resume in December 2024. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 707 | | 707 | ||
| Neckarbischofsheim Nord – Hüffenhardt | | Neckarbischofsheim Nord – Hüffenhardt | ||
| | | Summer Sundays and certain summer Wednesdays only. Only four train pairs between Siegelsbach and Hüffenhardt. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 732.1 | | 732.1 | ||
| Stockach – Mengen | | Stockach – Mengen | ||
| Three | | Three train pairs on summer Sundays only | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 737 | | 737 | ||
| Lauchringen – Weizen | | Lauchringen – Weizen | ||
| Five | | Five train pairs on weekdays to and from Stühlingen except school holidays; only two train pairs on summer Sundays to and from Weizen | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 743 | | 743 | ||
| Line 203: | Line 203: | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 759 | | 759 | ||
| Gammertingen – | | Gammertingen – Schelklingen | ||
| Limited service | | Limited service; sparser during school holidays and at weekends than on schooldays | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 767 | | 767 | ||
| Line 220: | Line 220: | ||
| 790.11 | | 790.11 | ||
| Kornwestheim – Stuttgart-Untertürkheim | | Kornwestheim – Stuttgart-Untertürkheim | ||
| Mondays to Fridays peak hours only. Also used by ''NJ468/469'' Wien Hbf – Paris Est MThSO and v.v. TFSuO | | Mondays to Fridays peak hours only. <!---Also used by ''NJ468/469'' Wien Hbf – Paris Est MThSO and v.v. TFSuO---> | ||
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Revision as of 13:59, 8 December 2023
Introduction
Owing to the size and complexity of the German railway system, the Obscure Services listing is subdivided by Land (Province). Berlin and Bremen are separate Länder, but it is convenient to include them with Brandenburg and Niedersachsen respectively. Details of Other Sparse Services, Services not included in the DB Kursbuch and Deletions since previous edition can be found below.
The stations at which long-distance trains start and terminate may vary, depending on the date. Where there are more than two possibilities, such as a train terminating at Kassel, Hannover or Hamburg, only the shortest and longest itineraries are indicated in the lists on this site.
A brief Guide to German railway terminology is available.
This list is based on the timetable dated from 12 December 2021 to 10 December 2022, unless otherwise stated.
List of Länder (Regions)
| Baden-Württemberg | Includes Mannheim and Stuttgart | entries starting with 'DExx/601' |
| Bayern | Includes München and Nürnberg | entries starting with 'DExx/651' |
| Berlin and Brandenburg | Includes Falkenberg (Elster) and Cottbus | entries starting with 'DExx/251' |
| Hamburg | entries starting with 'DExx/051' | |
| Hessen | Includes Frankfurt am Main and Darmstadt | entries starting with 'DExx/501' |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Includes Rostock and Stralsund | entries starting with 'DExx/101' |
| Niedersachsen and Bremen | Includes Hannover and Osnabrück | entries starting with 'DExx/151' |
| Nordrhein-Westfalen | Includes Köln and Dortmund | entries starting with 'DExx/351' |
| Rheinland-Pfalz | Includes Koblenz and Ludwigshafen | entries starting with 'DExx/401' |
| Saarland | Includes Saarbrücken | entries starting with 'DExx/451' |
| Sachsen | Includes Leipzig and Dresden | entries starting with 'DExx/301' |
| Sachsen-Anhalt | Includes Halle (Saale) and Magdeburg | entries starting with 'DExx/201' |
| Schleswig-Holstein | Includes Lübeck and Kiel | entries starting with 'DExx/001' |
| Thüringen | Includes Erfurt and Nordhausen | entries starting with 'DExx/551' |
Trams
See Germany - Tram services over obscure routes
Other Sparse Services
| 174 | Inselstadt Malchow – Karow (Meckl) – Plau am See / Parchim | Friday evenings, Saturdays and Sundays in summer only; Malchow – Alt Schwerin also on weekdays in high summer |
| 186 | Bad Doberan – Ostseebad Kühlungsborn West | Five train pairs in winter; more in summer |
| 190 | Bergen auf Rügen – Sassnitz-Mukran Fährhafen | Two train pairs on Saturdays only from May to mid-October in 2023. Details of 2024 service awaited. |
| 209.20 | Priort – Falkenhagen and Hennigsdorf – Birkenwerder (b. Berlin) | No weekend service over these sections |
| 209.27 | Wensickendorf – Schmachtenhagen | Weekend daytime service only |
| 209.73 | Kyritz Am Bürgerpark – Pritzwalk | Four train pairs on weekdays; three at weekends |
| 209.74 | Pritzwalk West – Pritzwalk – Meyenburg – Plau am See | Five train pairs on weekdays. Three train pairs at weekends between Pritzwalk and Meyenburg, extending to Plau am See in the summer. Very limited schoolday-only service to Pritzwalk West. |
| RB TES | Erkner – Fangschleuse Tesla Süd | No weekend service on this recently-opened branch |
| 238 | Zittau – Kurort Jonsdorf / Kurort Oybin | Two train pairs Zittau – Jonsdorf and four Bertsdorf – Oybin for most of the winter. Four pairs Zittau – Bertsdorf in the summer; better on the rest of the route. |
| 257 | Dessau Hbf – Wörlitz | No winter service |
| 326 | Drei Annen Hohne – Eisfelder Talmühle – Ifield Neanderklinik | Very limited winter service of between one and three trains each way |
| 333 | Alexisbad – Hasselfelde and Eisfelder Talmühle | Only two train pairs in the winter |
| 357.1 | Einbeck Mitte – Einbeck BBS/PS-Speicher | Limited service weekdays, no service at weekends on this recently reopened section |
| 397 | [Leer –] Ihrhove – Weener | No trains until probably December 2024, following destruction of the River Ems bridge |
| 479 | Boppard – Boppard Süd | Very limited schoolday-only service |
| 509 | Radebeul Ost – Radeburg | Five train pairs daily; only two beyond Moritzburg. Closed most of March and November. |
| 513 | Freital Hainsberg – Kurort Kipsdorf | Three train pairs daily; only two beyond Dippoldiswalde. Closed most of March and November. |
| 517 | Cranzahl – Vejprty (CZ) [– Chomutov] | Three train pairs on summer weekends only in 2023. Details of 2024 timetable awaited. |
| 518 | Cranzahl – Kurort Oberwiesenthal | Four train pairs daily; closed most of March and November |
| 544 | Bad Brambach – Plesná (CZ) [– Cheb] | Five train pairs daily |
| 566 | Ilmenau – Rennsteig | Four train pairs, weekends and holidays only |
| 662.1 | Monsheim – Münchweiler (Alsenz) | Summer Sundays only. Service expected to resume on 1 April 2024 after four-year pause. |
| 666 | Ramsen – Eiswoog | Weekends only |
| 675.1 | Bundenthal-Rumbach – Hinterweidenthal Ost | Summer Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays only |
| 692 | Perl – Thionville [France] | Two train pairs on weekends only. A full service is expected to resume in December 2024. |
| 707 | Neckarbischofsheim Nord – Hüffenhardt | Summer Sundays and certain summer Wednesdays only. Only four train pairs between Siegelsbach and Hüffenhardt. |
| 732.1 | Stockach – Mengen | Three train pairs on summer Sundays only |
| 737 | Lauchringen – Weizen | Five train pairs on weekdays to and from Stühlingen except school holidays; only two train pairs on summer Sundays to and from Weizen |
| 743 | Geisingen-Leipferdingen – Blumberg-Zollhaus | Limited service |
| 752 | Aulendorf – Bad Wurzach | Summer Sundays only |
| 754 | Aulendorf – Pfullendorf | Summer Sundays only |
| 758 | Amstetten – Gerstetten | Summer Sundays only |
| 759 | Gammertingen – Schelklingen | Limited service; sparser during school holidays and at weekends than on schooldays |
| 767 | Eyach – Hechingen (HzL) | Summer Sundays only |
| 769 | Balingen – Schömberg | Summer Sundays only |
| 772 | Maulbronn West – Maulbronn Stadt | Summer Sundays only |
| 790.11 | Kornwestheim – Stuttgart-Untertürkheim | Mondays to Fridays peak hours only. |
Regular services not in the Kursbuch
The following lines are not included in the online DB Kursbuch, but timetables can be found on the websites shown. Long-distance services appear in most, but not all, tables in the Kursbuch where they would be expected to be found, so the DB journey planner or the European Rail Timetable is often the best guide to these.
| All Flixtrain services | flixtrain.com/all-timetables. Note that both flixtrain.com and flixtrain.de just redirect to the Flixbus site so this particular address needs to be used. | |
| 133 | Kiel Hbf – Oppendorf | nah.sh |
| 136.1 | Niebüll – Tønder (DK) [– Esbjerg] | nah.sh |
| 137 | Neumünster – Kaltenkirchen – Hamburg-Eidelstedt | nah.sh |
| 138 | Ulzburg Süd – Norderstedt Mitte | nah.sh |
| 139 | Elmshorn – Barmstedt – Ulzburg Süd | nah.sh |
| 145 | Lüneburg – Lübeck – Kiel | nah.sh |
| 201 | Magdeburg – Berlin – Frankfurt (Oder) – Cottbus | ODEG |
| former 203 | Berlin – Elsterwerda (RE8S) | ODEG |
| 209.12 | Berlin – Löwenberg (Mark) – Templin Stadt | Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB) |
| 209.25 | Berlin – Werneuchen | Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB) |
| 209.26 | Berlin – Küstrin-Kietz [– Kostrzyn (PL)] | Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB) |
| 209.27 | Berlin-Karow – Groß Schönebeck/Schmachtenhagen | Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB) |
| 209.33 | Potsdam Hbf – Jüterbog | ODEG |
| 209.35 | Furstenwalde (Spree) – Bad Saarow-Pieskow | Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB) |
| 209.36 | Königs Wusterhausen – Frankfurt (Oder) | Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB) |
| 209.46 | Cottbus – Forst (Lausitz) | ODEG |
| 209.51 | Rathenow – Brandenburg | ODEG |
| 209.54 | Löwenberg (Mark) – Rheinsberg (Mark) | Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB) |
| 209.60 | Eberswalde – Wriezen – Frankfurt (Oder) | Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB) |
| 209.63 | Eberswalde – Joachimsthal | Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB) |
| 209.73 | Neustadt (Dosse) – Pritzwalk | Hanseatische Eisenbahn |
| 209.74 | Pritzwalk – Meyenburg | Hanseatische Eisenbahn |
| RB TES | Erkner – Fangschleuse Tesla Süd (new service from 04.09.23) | eberswalde.ffo.de (Unofficial) |
| 220 | Cottbus – Görlitz – Zittau | ODEG |
| 229 | Görlitz – Hoyerswerda | ODEG |
| 236 | Seifhennersdorf – Zittau | Trilex |
| 238 | Zittau – Kurort Oybin / Kurort Jonsdorf | SOEG |
| 257 | Dessau – Wörlitz | Dessau-Wörlitzer Eisenbahn |
| 269 | Stendal – Tangermünde | Hanseatische Eisenbahn |
| 360.1 | Minden (Westf) – Hannover – Haste (S1) | Transdev Hannover |
| 360.2 | Nienburg (Weser) – Hannover – Haste (S2) | Transdev Hannover |
| 360.3 | Hannover – Hildesheim (S3) | Transdev Hannover |
| 360.4 | Bennemühlen – Hannover – Hildesheim (S4) | Transdev Hannover |
| 360.5 | Hannover Flughafen – Hannover – Paderborn (S5) | Transdev Hannover |
| 360.6 | Hannover – Celle (S6) | Transdev Hannover |
| 360.7 | Hannover – Lehrte – Celle (S7) | Transdev Hannover |
| former 484 | Düren – Heimbach (Eifel) | Rurtalbahn |
| 514 | Freiberg (Sachs) – Holzhau | Freiberger Eisenbahn |
| 758 | Amstetten (Württ) – Gerstetten | Schwäbische Alb-Bahn |
| 762 | Nürtingen – Neuffen (Tälesbahn) | Württembergische Eisenbahn |
| 790.21 | Schörndorf – Oberrndorf (Wieslauftalbahn) | Württembergische Eisenbahn |
| 790.46 | Böblingen - Dettenhausen (Schönbuchbahn) | Württembergische Eisenbahn |
| 790.47 | Korntal – Heimerdingen (Strohgäubahn) | Württembergische Eisenbahn |
| former 12474 | Düren - Euskirchen | Rurtalbahn |
Deletions since previous edition
| DE23/280 | Rheinsberg (Mark) – Stechlinsee | Special trains have not run since 2021 |
| DE23/297 | Werbig avoiding curve (Abzw Werbig oben - Werbig (Ostbahn)) | Diversions over this route are unlikely to be repeated in the next few years |
