Trains along the Rhine

[Route115?]

I will be travelling in Germany with an Interrail pass next month and would like to travel along the Rhine. The track on the west of the river gives the better view but on my last trip the travel travelled along the route on the east bank crossing over just before Koblenz, in my view a less scenic route. Are there any trains that take the route via Bingham between Mainz and Koblenz. Presumably there is a local service but I'm struggling a bit with the journey planner. Any tips/

 

[Gloster]

Try the European Rail Timetable ( .europeanrailtimetable.eu ). You can get it as a book or a download (or something like that) and it makes things much easier when trying to work out various alternative timings and routeings. It has the mainline and both local services alongside the line.

 

[DanielB]

AFAIK the long distance trains also take the West bank normally (at least mine was earlier this month), but there may be diversions due to engineering works resulting in trains running via the East bank and crossing over at Koblenz. The East bank is used more for freight while the West bank is used mostly for passenger services.

Easiest way to find out: just click on the journey details in the DB journey planner and look for Bonn Hbf in the list of stops. When the train stops there, it will take the West bank.
And as far as I could quickly found RB26 and RE5 take the West bank, provided there are no works going on.

 

[Halish Railway]

Generally between Mainz and Koblenz all long distance trains go along the western side as the linespeeds are much faster. The only time this wouldn’t be the case would be if there’re engineering works.

At the moment it seems that long distance trains are travelling along the western side of Rhine between Cologne and Koblenz via Bonn Hbf. If Apple Maps is anything to go by no long distance trains are expected to call at Bonn-Beuel (eastern side) for quite some time.

 

[cornishjohn]

If you really want the view then why not get the slower trains anyway? But as far as I can see the ICE routes Mainz/Koblenz direct are usually west bank as you want. Anything routed Mainz/Wiesbaden/Koblenz (or reverse) has to be east bank, otherwise engineering or other disruption is your enemy. Avoid Wiesbaden.

 

[30907]

Putting Bingen Hbf or Stadt - or Boppard - in the planner should give you left bank trains south of Koblenz, which is the best bit.
Bingham OTOH.... - but that was alto carrot

 

[Route115?]

Never could spell! Thanks for your replies everyone. I was looking at the route on the DB app but being a Sunday there may have been engineering work resulting in a diversion.

 

[dutchflyer]

Ne schöner Tag dann-now sitting in a train on the way to a package trip to Germany/Sauerland now and had a similar package-4 nights in a hotel all-in with 3 meals/day and free drinks included in a very small village on the east bank just south of KOblenz some 3 month ago. From the dining room splendid view also over the Rhein and seeing overlong freight trains passing by there on west bank every few mins and some sleek white ICE too. THat hotel also offered a free pass for the local Verbund-KOblenz area, and there was an hourly VIAS RB train doing Wiesbaden-KOblenz. But as I have and still use the Deutschland ticket-excluding use of ICE- not much use for me.
There is no town named Bingham there-there is Boppard/west bank and then Bingen going south on the bend of the river, then turns east toward Mainz. This has now also been explained above-note that the RB comes all the way from KÖln=Cologne and tends to thus be late or even later and overfull-all those also not aware D-ticket users doing it all the way. Thats by Mittelrheinbahn. The RE starts in KOblenz and is by DB-north of KO that-you must know it- National Express runs an RE with that half double-deck sets in a drab brown and free wifi and even ´german dialect´ spoken english. I was on one of their RB trains an hour ago, replacing an RE much further north.
The bahn.de site (but I always use the german major one, so there might be a little less on /en/) is a splendid source of info- but for such things IF these are all in one ´Verbund´ area-this is RMV (Rhein Mosel)- can also give more of the info you ask for-network maps-old-style tabled line timetables, some even other things-this one is rmvinfo.de (there is also vrm=Rhein Main, around FRAnkfurt), but it ends between Boppard and BIngen. However, I grasp its hard to even find out where all those ´Verbünde´ are, how they are named and how far they stretch out or perhaps a bit too much for an Interrail all over EURope

 

[The exile]

I will be travelling in Germany with an Interrail pass next month and would like to travel along the Rhine. The track on the west of the river gives the better view but on my last trip the travel travelled along the route on the east bank crossing over just before Koblenz, in my view a less scenic route. Are there any trains that take the route via Bingham between Mainz and Koblenz. Presumably there is a local service but I'm struggling a bit with the journey planner. Any tips/

The local service (IIRC) uses double-deck stock - so a view-enhancer.

 

[MikeFromLFE]

We will be traveling from Koblenz to Cologne next month - I'm assuming the east bank services are the more scenic on this stretch?
Are these double deck as well?

 

[Halish Railway]

We will be traveling from Koblenz to Cologne next month - I'm assuming the east bank services are the more scenic on this stretch?
Are these double deck as well?

I know for certain that RE5 to Oberhausen via Bonn Hbf and the west bank uses Siemens Desiro High Capacity units, which are a mix of single and double deck carriages. I think north of Koblenz both sides are as good as each other. If you take RE5 and sit facing the river you’ll certainly enjoy your ride.

 

[DanielB]

The west bank has the best views by the way, on the east bank the line is slightly further from the river north of Koblenz.

 

[route101]

The Swiss Eurocity services go via the Rhine. We went via the east bank.

 

[DanielB]

The Swiss Eurocity services go via the Rhine. We went via the east bank.

Which is a diversion, it's regularly going via the west bank.