Travellers coming from, going to or passing by Stuttgart face major restrictions in rail traffic for three weeks during the Advent. Here's which connections are cancelled, re-routed or limited.
A new overnight sleeper train between Paris and Berlin has just been announced, filling the gap left by the soon-to-be-discontinued Nightjet service by Austrian rail provider ÖBB.
The tardiness of Germany’s national rail company, Deutsche Bahn, is notorious in Switzerland, prompting yet another canton, Schaffhausen, to take measures to restore punctuality on its territory.
Germany's Deutsche Bahn (DB) got rid of an offer for discounted family seat reservations on its trains in June. Now nearly 130,000 people have signed a petition urging the rail operator to bring it back.
The Paris to Berlin night train faces being taken off the tracks less than two years after it returned to the railway schedules - even though it's proved popular with travellers.
If you travel in Germany by train you get used to a certain way of doing things: you keep quiet, you expect delays, you manage tickets with the DB app. In other countries things can be a bit different, so here are some tips for European train travel.
Starting from mid-December, Deutsche Bahn plans to significantly expand railway services to Poland, making cross-border travel faster and easier for travellers coming from Germany.
Passengers in Germany are facing multiple long-distance, regional and local railway disruption at the start of September due to ongoing construction projects and staffing issues in Germany. Here's where travellers are most affected.
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has slammed the fact that budget flights between destinations in Europe are still often significantly cheaper than travelling by train.
An upgraded historic railroad set to open in December will shorten the time it takes to reach BER airport from central Berlin, and provide more links to Dresden.
Passengers are eager to get to their destination during the peak holiday season in Germany and Austria. But severe disruptions on a key route between Munich and Salzburg are causing problems this week.
Trains on Berlin's U1 line have been suspended indefinitely. Confronted by both staffing and infrastructure issues, the city's transportation company appears to be struggling to maintain services.
Deutsche Bahn's punctuality figures for June show a sharp decline on May, with at least four out of ten long-distance trains arriving late at their destinations.
In a move intended to increase the reliability of train service between Stuttgart and Zurich, national rail company SBB has organised a replacement service for tardy German trains running on Switzerland's territory.
With temperatures of up to 40C expected, the extreme heat was expected to significantly impact rail traffic in Germany on Wednesday, especially in the west of the country.
Rail passengers have got used to German trains being several minutes or even hours late. Now it has emerged that Deutsche Bahn's large-scale improvement project also faces a delay – of several years.
Southern Europe is home to most of the continent's iconic summer vacation destinations. But as temperatures rise, some of those spots are getting too hot. Here are some cooler alternatives you can reach from Germany.
Eurostar said it would launch new direct train routes from London to Frankfurt and Geneva, as potential competitors threaten to break its three-decade monopoly on cross-channel rail travel.
Germany's Deutsche Bahn is in the process of updating its long-distance trains by gradually phasing out older models, but a public transport passenger association has warned that this could cause bottlenecks on some routes.
The popularity of cross-border train travel has increased in Europe in recent years despite logistical issues with tickets. Now Germany's Deutsche Bahn says it plans to offer 'all in one' tickets for international connections.
