I was planning on putting some of the journeys from my Interrail trip last summer into my new railmiles account (unfortunately I didn't log them properly as I later did - all I have is the Interrail sheet I filled out, which is obviously lacking U-Bahn and tram journeys). Is there a good source for kilometreages for Germany and Austria (I only need mainline/S-Bahn for now)? Free would be preferable but I don't mind buying an atlas/etc. if that's required.
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German and Austrian rail kilometreages
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Schweers & Wall publish some excellent Rail Atlases , but note that you will need the individual country ones to get the km detail as the general EU one does not go down to that level of detail.
For Germany there is a program called Trassenpreise which you can download here on the DB website (see the first download on the top right called TPS-Preisauskunft-Software 2015) but you will probably need a map of some sort to check that it is sending you via the route that you actually travelled on. A list of the German station codes is also useful and they can be found HERE
For Germany there is a program called Trassenpreise which you can download here on the DB website (see the first download on the top right called TPS-Preisauskunft-Software 2015) but you will probably need a map of some sort to check that it is sending you via the route that you actually travelled on. A list of the German station codes is also useful and they can be found HERE
LNW-GW Joint
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There are some very interesting and detailed web pages on German and Austrian railways, with kilometrage and other details on a sidebar.
This one is for the Thuringian Railway (Bebra-Leipzig): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuringian_Railway
This one is in English but many of them are only in German, although the data is usually easy to work out.
The German versions often have more detailed information.
Here's one for the Austrian Nordbahn (KFNB): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnstrecke_Wien–Břeclav
and the Westbahn (Kaiserin Elisabeth Westbahn): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Western_Railway
You can follow the links from these sites onto adjacent railways.
Otherwise the Schweers+Wall atlases have all the info you need.
This one is for the Thuringian Railway (Bebra-Leipzig): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuringian_Railway
This one is in English but many of them are only in German, although the data is usually easy to work out.
The German versions often have more detailed information.
Here's one for the Austrian Nordbahn (KFNB): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnstrecke_Wien–Břeclav
and the Westbahn (Kaiserin Elisabeth Westbahn): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Western_Railway
You can follow the links from these sites onto adjacent railways.
Otherwise the Schweers+Wall atlases have all the info you need.
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Thanks all. The Austrian Westbahn Wikipedia page (English and German) seems to be missing some measurements (crucially where the new parts join back to the old parts). Grah.
I can't find anywhere selling Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland for a reasonable price. Hmm. I'll just use that application for Germany.
I can't find anywhere selling Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland for a reasonable price. Hmm. I'll just use that application for Germany.
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LNW-GW Joint
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I got mine from Amazon.
33056
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Regarding the Eisenbahnn atlas, you could always try looking around to see if you get one of the older copies second hand somewhere; sure I have seen one in the "Emporium" on Loughborough Central station in the past.
Hmm. So, my Eisenbahnatlas Österreich arrived, and I finally got a chance to look at Westbahn. Irritatingly, the kilometreage changes on Wikipedia (caused by the difference between the old route and the new route) appear to be missing. I don't quite see the point in printing kilometreages if you don't show the changes required to make them accurate. Ah well, it's still a nice map. I could try combining the data from Wikipedia and the atlas but I'm not convinced it'll be accurate. Ah well.
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For German local rail services (S/RB/RE/IRE as well as most private railways), there's an application called Entfernungsrechner / PFFEB that can do those and knows all stations (including minor ones) in Germany. This is DB proprietary and has been originally released to their employees so they can determine the validity of the 50 km reduced rail staff travel ticket ("RegioTicket M 50").
An older version of PFFEB can be downloaded from http://www.sev-vpt-db.ch/infos-nuetzliches-adressen/index.php more recent versions are not available publicly so you can only obtain them from DB directly.
The PFFEB has superseded the German official fares manual (Entfernungszeiger - Tfv 603) that lists journeys kilometres and permitted routes.
You can also use the online "Kursbuch" to look up DB kilometrages but it is very tedious.
An older version of PFFEB can be downloaded from http://www.sev-vpt-db.ch/infos-nuetzliches-adressen/index.php more recent versions are not available publicly so you can only obtain them from DB directly.
The PFFEB has superseded the German official fares manual (Entfernungszeiger - Tfv 603) that lists journeys kilometres and permitted routes.
You can also use the online "Kursbuch" to look up DB kilometrages but it is very tedious.
maxiboy
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As for intercity lines in Germany and Austria try the attached programme. It knows only the most popular fare flows but should be sufficient. Unlike Jizdenka it also displays alternative routes (for example Koeln-Frankfurt via Koblenz and Koeln-Frankfurt via High Speed Line) if such alternatives are laid down in the data.
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