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direkt.bahn.guru - Find all direct train connections from your city 🚅

crosspost from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/3477888

I just came across this tool, which - after entering a city - shows all other cities to which there is a direct train connection. A color code depicts the travel hours.

Examples:

Although I’m not quite sure yet on what occasion I can use the tool. But someday the moment will come :D

Btw. there is a Sparpreis search on https://bahn.guru/ with a monthly view (“On which day do I travel cheapest from A to B?”). Unfortunately the links to the store don’t work yet.

  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
    7·
    2 years ago

    As an aside, for people who are interested in international train travel - can I recommend https://www.seat61.com - it’s a work of love and has helped me loads of times traveling in Europe. Most recently getting a train from the UK to Southern Italy

  • plactagonic@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    2 years ago

    I never knew that I can get to Hamburg in about 10 hours. Visiting Berlin by train is on my wish list now I will add Hamburg too.

      • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        Why is the German rail infrastructure so shit for such a rich country? Even the Netherlands has a better system. Is it because of the car industry lobbyists?

        • plactagonic@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          2 years ago

          There is simple answer: there is too much to maintain.

          As a Czech I can tell that we have the denses rail network in Europe because we were in centre of Austria-Hungary. Communists didn’t want to tear it down and expanded public transport…

          Now even with heavy subsidies it is just too much.

          • VanillaGorilla@kbin.social
            6·
            2 years ago

            At least in Germany it’s due to partial privatization. To a degree. We still think it should be profitable and don’t treat it as the critical infrastructure it is.

            • plactagonic@sopuli.xyz
              2·
              2 years ago

              Here it is also partially privatised, but only train providers. National rail maintainer is SŽDC. I think that it is similar in Germany.

  • jo3rn@feddit.de
    1·
    2 years ago

    In itself, I like to take the train to go on vacation. It has a lot of benefits. But one thing I avoid whenever possible is connecting trains. If you don’t want to ruin your trip, don’t change trains more than once and even then only with a lot of time buffer. If that is not possible, I prefer to make a stopover for 1-2 nights instead and continue the journey on a different day.

    The good thing is that you sometimes end up in wonderful places that you don’t even have on your radar. This tool had already helped me with that.

  • thedarkfly@feddit.nl
    1·
    2 years ago

    That’s really cool! I can’t seem to make it work properly though. Sometimes, there’s a popup with links to the train connection, but I can’t make the popup appear reliably.