Urban Railways in

Germany

The Wuppertal Schwebebahn suspended monorail crossing Bundesallee west of Ohligsmühle station

Metros, Trams and Urban Funiculars

• Berlin
  • BVG metro (U-Bahn) and urban trams
  • S-Bahn suburban and outer suburban services
  • Outer suburban tram routes connecting with S-Bahn services:
    • SRS Friedrichshagen S-Bahn station to Schöneiche, Rüdersdorf and Alt-Rüdersdorf (Site in German with a downloadable brochure in English)
    • Strausberg Strausberg S-Bahn station to Strausberg Lustgarten; also operates the Straussee ferry (Site in German)
    • Woltersdorf Rahnsdorf S-Bahn station to Woltersdorf (Site in German)
• Augsburg trams (Site in German)
• Bad Ems Kurwaldbahn funicular
• Baden Baden Merkur Bergbahn funicular (Site in German)
• Bad Herrenalb a short funicular links the railway station with the Falkenburg Clinic (Site in German, contains no details relating to funicular)
• Bad Schandau Kirnitzschtalbahn, a rural tramway (Site in German)
• Bad Wildbad Sommerbergbahn funicular (Site in German)
• Bielefeld trams (Site in German)
• Brandenburg an der Havel trams (Site in German)
• Braunschweig trams (Site in German)
• Bremen trams
• Chemnitz
  • City-Bahn regional tram-train services (Site in German)
  • CVAG city trams (Site in German)
• Cottbus trams (Site in German)
• Darmstadt trams (Site in German)
• Dessau trams (Site in German)
• Dresden trams (including the freight carrying CarGoTram) and funiculars (Site in German)
• Durlach (near Karlsruhe) Turmbergbahn funicular (Site in German)
• Erfurt trams (Site in German)
• Frankfurt am Main Metro (U-bahn) and trams
• Frankfurt (Oder)
  • trams (Site in German)
  • proposed extension of the tram system to Słubice, Poland (No website located at present but see press release in German)
• Freiburg trams
• Gera trams (Site in German)
• Görlitz trams (Site in German)
• Gotha trams, including an out-of-town service to the Thüringerwald (Site in German)
• Halberstadt trams (Site in German)
• Halle (Saale) trams (Site in German)
• Hamburg
  • HVV local trains, metro and a freight service (Site in German)
  • Proposed trams (Site in German)
• Hannover trams (Site in German)
• Heidelberg funicular (for trams see RNV below) (Site in German)
• Jena trams (Site in German)
• Karlsruhe trams, including the pioneering tram-train network (Site in German)
• Kassel trams
• Künzelsau funicular (Site in German)
• Leipzig trams
• Magdeburg trams (Site in German)
• Mainz trams (Site in German)
• München
  • MVV Metro, trams and local trains
  • Airport Peoplemover proposed underground passenger transport system between Terminal 2 its satellites, at present under construction (Press release in German)
• Nordhausen trams, including a tram-train service operating on the lines of the Harzer Schmalspurbahn (Site in German)
• Nürnberg Metro (U-bahn), trams (CityBahn) and historic tramway depot
• Plauen trams (Site in German)
• Potsdam trams (Site in German)
• RNV trams in Heidelberg, Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, and the Rhein-Haardtbahn interurban
• Rostock trams
• Saarbahn local network in the Saar region of Germany, with cross-border services to Sarreguemines in France (Site in German)
• Schwerin trams and local trains (Site in German)
• Stuttgart trams (partly underground in the city centre, and including a rack section on the steep route 10), also a funicular railway serving the Waldfriedhof cemetery (Site in German)
• Ulm trams (Site in German)
• VRR S-Bahn, U-Bahn and trams in the Rhein-Ruhr-Wupper region, including:
  • H-Bahn Dortmund suspended monorail serving the University
  • Sky-Train Düsseldorf suspended monorail connecting the Airport terminals with the nearby regional rail station
  • Wuppertal Schwebebahn historic suspended monorail following the course of the Wupper river
• VRS trams in the Köln/Bonn area
• Wiesbaden Nerobergbahn funicular
• Würzburg trams (Site in German)
• Zwickau trams (Site in German)

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