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Train routes operated by DB Regio
19 routes · classic 14 · scenic 5
DB Regio runs 19 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 2,039 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the RE10 Leipzig–Frankfurt (Oder) at 236 km; the fastest is the RE10 Leipzig–Frankfurt (Oder), running up to 160 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1846.
The company itself dates to 1999, filed on Wikidata as a subsidiary company. What this page says about the company comes from DB Regio's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q18853 ↗
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- 19
- Total length
- 2,039 km
- Countries
- Germany
- Oldest line here
- 1846
- Company founded
- 1999
- Type
- subsidiary company
- Fastest
- RE10 Leipzig–Frankfurt (Oder) · 160 km/h
- Longest
- RE10 Leipzig–Frankfurt (Oder) · 236 km
Classic (14)
- RE10 Leipzig–Frankfurt (Oder)
The long way across Lusatia, three hours and ten minutes from Leipzig to the Polish border at Frankfurt an der Oder by way of Torgau, Falkenberg, Cottbus and the Neisse at Guben, over the Halle to Sorau to Guben railway of 1872.
- RE5 Berlin–Rostock
Berlin to the Baltic in one seat: the Mecklenburg lake district at Neustrelitz and Waren, then Rostock and the ferries.
- Main-Weser Railway
One of Germany’s first trunk railways, opened in stages between 1849 and 1852 through Gießen and Marburg; its 160 km/h ceiling is only reachable on the southern half.
Wikipedia ↗ - Danube Valley Railway
Threads the young Danube from Ulm through Blaubeuren and Riedlingen to Sigmaringen, single-tracked and largely unelectrified — once part of the Munich–Freiburg main line.
Wikipedia ↗ - Südbahn
Württemberg’s Südbahn, electrified at last: Ulm’s minster to Lake Constance at Friedrichshafen, then along the shore to Lindau island.
Wikipedia (DE) ↗ - Stendal–Uelzen railway
Mostly single track yet electrified and main-line rated, crossing the Altmark from Stendal to Uelzen with Salzwedel the one town of any size on the way.
Wikipedia ↗ - Lahn Valley Railway
The Lahn from Wetzlar down to the Rhine through Weilburg, Limburg, Nassau and the spa at Bad Ems; opened in three pieces and finished on 10 January 1863.
Wikipedia ↗ - Main-Neckar Railway
Opened in 1846 down the Upper Rhine plain west of the Odenwald, one of Germany's oldest railways and still the local road from Frankfurt through Darmstadt and Bensheim to Heidelberg.
Wikipedia ↗ - Saar Railway
The Saarstrecke of 1858–60 follows the Saar from Trier up to Saarbrücken, one of the oldest railways in Germany and still the valley's stopping service.
Wikipedia ↗ - Bad Kleinen–Rostock railway
Opened in 1850 by the Mecklenburg Railway Company and now part of the electrified main line that carries Berlin and Hamburg trains to the Baltic at Rostock.
Wikipedia ↗ - Gotha–Leinefelde railway
Forty two minutes across the Thuringian Basin through Bad Langensalza and Mühlhausen, opened in 1870 and now rebuilt for 160 km/h.
Wikipedia ↗ - Frankenwaldbahn
The climb over the Frankenwald from the Main valley to the Thuringian border at Probstzella by Kronach and Ludwigsstadt, finished in October 1885 and steep enough to need banking engines.
Wikipedia ↗ - Neckarelz–Osterburken railway
Opened in 1866 as part of the Baden Odenwald Railway from Heidelberg to Würzburg, now double track and electrified along the edge of the Odenwald.
Wikipedia ↗ - Rostock–Tessin railway
What is left of the 1895 branch east of Rostock: trains still run to Tessin, while the track on to Tribsees has been lifted.
Wikipedia (DE) ↗
Scenic (5)
- Schwarzwaldbahn
Robert Gerwig’s 1873 blueprint for mountain railways climbs about 650 m through 39 tunnels and two sweeping double loops high above Triberg.
Wikipedia ↗ - Eifelbahn
Rebuilt after the 2021 flood tore it out: Cologne into the volcanic Eifel over Gerolstein’s crags and down the Kyll gorge to Trier.
Wikipedia ↗ - Höllentalbahn
Germany’s steepest main line climbs Hell’s Valley at 55 ‰: through the Hirschsprung gorge and over the Ravenna viaduct into the high Black Forest.
Wikipedia ↗ - Kochelsee Railway
Bavarian lakes branch of 1865: from Tutzing on the Starnberger See south to the Kochelsee under the first peaks of the Alps.
Wikipedia ↗ - Lauter Valley Railway
The Lautertalbahn follows its river out of Kaiserslautern to Lauterecken — a branch the Bundesbahn planned to close in the 1980s and never did.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does DB Regio run?
19 of the routes in this atlas are DB Regio services, covering 2,039 km across 1 country (Germany). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest DB Regio train?
The RE10 Leipzig–Frankfurt (Oder), Leipzig to Frankfurt (Oder), at up to 160 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes 3 h 10 min over 236 km.
Does DB Regio run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 19 DB Regio routes listed here are daytime services.
When was DB Regio founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1999, and files it as a subsidiary company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1846 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries DB Regio runs in
- 🇩🇪 Train routes in Germany 136 routes
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