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DB Goes Beyond

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TheEdge

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This has amazed me. I went looking for a full German rail timetable, maybe something like the old National timetable. What I found has genuinely shocked me...

DB Database

It is basically the full train database, not only for DB but for all of mainland Europe, extending east at least out to Russia, Ukraine and covers services in Ireland.

Pick two stations anywhere in Europe and it will find you the full journey, even if it includes ferries, the tube, walking, anything. For many trains on the mainland it will give you the train number and even platform allocations! Deciding to give it a test I challenged it to find me a train from Cochem to Berney Arms. It succeed, not only did it know the train from Liverpool Street to Norwich had a buffet but that Berney Arms was a request stop.

If only National Rail could produce something like this available to the public!

Bravo DB
 
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radamfi

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DB has issued an offline timetable for most of Europe for many years and was previously sold on CD in the UK from Platform 5. For the last couple of years they have made it a free download.

DB have a long tradition of Europewide journey planners. For a while in the 90s, it was the only journey planner for Great Britain as Railtrack didn't start up their own one until some time after DB had been doing one for most of Europe.

Be careful not to rely on the DB planner for changes due to engineering work.
 

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Yeah that's been around for a while. A lot of British TOCs' websites use DB's data for their personal timetable creator tools, I find.
 

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The DB website is a thing of wonder. It will get you as far as Vladivostok and Beijing!
 

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Genuine question - what gaps are there in Europe? I can imagine that private lines, metro lines, etc are not all included, but are some "national" systems also incomplete?
 
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