Trains in Germany.

 

This is Tayte reporting, my mom wanted some pictures of the trains that we ride so here you go.

Here’s Tenery waiting at the train station in nuremberg. As you can see there are several tracks and several platforms. We’re on platform 6 as you can see in the picture. When you walk into the station there are big screens that say what platform each train is at and where each train is going. You then walk through an underground tunnel until you get to the correct platform.

 

Here you can see the many platforms. Hbf stands for hauptbahnhof which is the main train station in each city.

Here’s the staircase you come up to get to the platform. You can see a regional train coming in (regional bahn or RB).

The train we’re getting on is heading to Berlin, but one of the stops is in Jena. That’s where we got off. In the bottom right it shows you how the train will pull into the station it will pull in between 6B and 6E.

Here’s the underground tunnel between platforms. at one end of this tunnel is the train station with travel information and restaurants.

Here’s our train pulling into the station. The white trains are inter-city express trains (ICE trains). they’re nicer, faster, and more expensive than the regional trains. With the train pass that we bought we get unlimited travel on 10 travel days on any train, so obviously we take the ICE trains.

Here is the inside of the ICE Trains. at the ends of the car there are nice glass sliding glass doors and bathrooms between every car.

Our reservation: when you make a reservation you are guaranteed a seat and these panels light up above the seat so everybody knows that they are reserved. If you don’t have a reservation you have to try and find a blank seat to sit in. This train is going from Munich to Berlin but we’re only riding from nurember to jena so that’s what shows up on the reservation. Sometimes when you get close to your destination city it lights up with a new reservation. For example, it might say Jena-Berlin and somebody else has it reserved for the rest of the trip after we get off.

 

I hope that helps you picture it. Let me know if there’s anything else you want me to post about. Tschuss!