Germany - Lines with Obscure or Sparse passenger services
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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 between late May and late September, plus certain Thursdays and Sundays in high summer |
| 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, extending to Plau am See in the summer. Very limited schoolday-only service to Pritzwalk West. |
| 238 | Zittau – Kurort Jonsdorf / Kurort Oybin | Limited winter service; better (but still fairly sparse) in the summer |
| 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 December 2024 at the earliest, pending rebuilding 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 |
| 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. Reopening delayed until an unknown date. |
| 666 | Ramsen – Eiswoog | Weekends only |
| 675.1 | Bundenthal-Rumbach – Hinterweidenthal Ost | Summer Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays only |
| 692 | Perl – Thionville (FR) | Two train pairs on weekends only. A full service is expected to resume in December 2024. |
| 707 | Neckarbischofsheim Nord – Hüffenhardt | Summer Sundays and alternate Wednesdays only. Only four train pairs beyond Siegelsbach. |
| 732.1 | Stockach – Mengen | Three train pairs on summer Sundays only |
| 737 | Lauchringen – Weizen | Five train pairs on schooldays to Stühlingen; two train pairs on summer Sundays to 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, better 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 some, 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. | |
| 101.1 | Hamburg Flughafen / Poppenbüttel – Wesel (S1) | S-Bahn Hamburg (journey planner) |
| 101.2 | Hamburg-Altona – Bergedorf (S2) | S-Bahn Hamburg (journey planner) |
| 101.3 | Pinneberg – Neugraben (S3) | S-Bahn Hamburg (journey planner) |
| 101.5 | Stade – Elbgaustraße (S5) | S-Bahn Hamburg (journey planner) (the Stade - Hamburg section of S5 is shown in Table 121) |
| 132 | Neumünster – Heide – Büsum | nah.sh |
| 133 | Kiel – Oppendorf | nah.sh |
| 134 | Kiel – Schleswig – Husum | nah.sh |
| 135 | Husum – Bad St. Peter-Ording | nah.sh |
| 136 | Niebüll – Dagebüll Mole | 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 |
| 140 | Lübeck – Neustadt (Holst.) (trains) – Puttgarden (buses) | nah.sh |
| 145 | Lüneburg – Lübeck – Kiel | nah.sh |
| 146 | Kiel – Flensburg | 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 [– Plau am See (summer weekends only)] | Hanseatische Eisenbahn |
| RB TES | Erkner – Fangschleuse Tesla Süd (new service from 04.09.23) | eberswalde.ffo.de (Links to VRR timetable pdf) |
| 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 |
| 325 | Wernigerode – Brocken | Harzer Schmalspurbahnen |
| 326 | Nordhausen – Drei Annen Hohne | Harzer Schmalspurbahnen |
| 333 | Quedlinburg – Eisfelder Talmühle | Harzer Schmalspurbahnen |
| 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 |
| 386 | Bielefeld – Rahden (RB71) | Eurobahn. The Bielefeld – Herford section of RB71 appears in Table 370. |
| 391 | Bremen – Hude – Nordenham (RS4) | Nordwestbahn (Transdev) |
| 400 | Hamm – Bielefeld (RB69) | Eurobahn. The Münster – Hamm section of RB69 appears in Table 410. |
| 404 | Bielefeld – Lemgo-Lüttfeld (RB73) | Eurobahn |
| 405 | Herford – Detmold – Paderborn (RB72) | Eurobahn |
| 406 | Münster – Warendorf – Bielefeld (RB67) | Eurobahn |
| 411 | Dortmund – Lünen – Münster (RB50) | Eurobahn. These trains do not appear between Dortmund and Lünen in Table 412 either. |
| 416 | Hamm – Dortmund – Düsseldorf (RE3). | Eurobahn. Although Table 416 exists, these services are not shown. |
| 430 | Hamm – Paderborn (RB89) | Eurobahn. The Münster – Hamm section of RB89 appears in Table 410. |
| 431 | Dortmund – Unna – Soest (RB59) | Eurobahn |
| 470 | Köln Hbf – Bonn Hbf – Koblenz Hbf | Mittelrheinbahn (Transdev) (stopping services. Use DB journey planner for RE and long-distance services). |
| 472 | Köln Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf via the high-speed line | DB journey planner |
| former 484 | Düren – Heimbach (Eifel) | Rurtalbahn |
| 485 | Venlo – Düsseldorf – Hamm (RE13) | Eurobahn. Although Table 485 exists, these services are not shown. |
| 495 | Düsseldorf Hbf – Kleve | Rhein-Ruhr-Bahn (Transdev) |
| 633 | Friedberg (Hess) – Hanau | HLB (journey planner) |
| 636 | Friedrichsdorf (Taunus) – Friedberg (Hess) | HLB (journey planner) |
| 637 | Frankfurt (Main) Hbf – Friedrichsdorf (Taunus) – Brandoberndorf | HLB (journey planner) |
| 762 | Nürtingen – Neuffen (Tälesbahn) | Württembergische Eisenbahn (Transdev) |
| 790.21 | Schörndorf – Oberrndorf (Wieslauftalbahn) | Württembergische Eisenbahn (Transdev) |
| 790.46 | Böblingen - Dettenhausen (Schönbuchbahn) | Württembergische Eisenbahn (Transdev) |
| 790.47 | Korntal – Heimerdingen (Strohgäubahn) | Württembergische Eisenbahn (Transdev) |
| former 12474 | Düren - Euskirchen | Rurtalbahn |
Deletions since previous edition
| DE23/280 | Rheinsberg (Mark) – Stechlinsee | Special trains have not run since 2021 |
| DE23/302 | Leipzig-Gohlis – Leipzig Hbf (main/high level station) via diveunder line | No rare track on a separate alignment used |
| DE23/361 | Bonn-Beuel – Hangelar | Special trains have not run since 2019. Line to be closed and railbuses used have been sold. |
