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Railway Technical Info - Germany

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National

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
DB: main system	heavy rail	standard	RH	15kV 16.7Hz AC overhead	includes all S-Bahn networks except Berlin and Hamburg

Regional

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
Harz narrow gauge	heavy rail	metre	n/a	none	through working with Nordhausen trams
Mannheim / Ludwigshafen / Heidelberg interurban	light rail	metre	RH, stubs	???

Land Baden-Württemberg

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification
Freiburg trams	trams	?	RH	?
Karlsruhe trams	trams	?	RH	?
Stuttgart trams	trams	?	RH	?
Ulm trams	trams	?	RH	?

Land Bayern

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification
München U-bahn	metro	standard	RH	?
München trams	trams	standard	RH, circles	?
Augsburg trams	trams	metre	RH, circles	?
Nürnberg U-bahn	metro	standard	RH	?
Nürnberg trams	trams	standard	RH	?

Länder Brandenburg and Berlin

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
DB: Berlin S-Bahn	suburban heavy rail	standard	RH	800V DC third rail	suburban system separate from main network
Berlin U-Bahn	metro	standard	RH	750V DC third rail
Berlin trams	trams	standard	RH, circles	?

Land Hamburg

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
DB: Hamburg S-Bahn	suburban heavy rail	standard	RH	1200V DC third rail bottom contact	suburban system separate from main network
Hamburg U-Bahn	metro	standard	RH	???V DC third rail

Land Hessen

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
Frankfurt am Main U-Bahn	metro	standard	RH	???V DC third rail
Frankfurt am Main trams	tram	standard	RH, stubs	???V DC overhead

Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Länder Niedersachsen and Bremen

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
Bremen trams	tram	standard	RH, stubs	???V DC overhead

Land Nordrhein-Westfalen: Ruhrgebiet

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
Krefeld trams	trams	metre	RH, stubs	?	dual-gauge section with Düsseldorf route U76
Düsseldorf Stadtbahn	light rail	standard	RH, stubs	?	route U76 runs to Krefeld; route U79 runs to Duisburg
Düsseldorf trams	trams	standard	RH, circles	?
Duisburg Stadtbahn / trams	light rail	standard	RH, stubs	?	route 901 runs to Mülheim
Mülheim / Oberhausen trams	trams	metre	RH	?	dual-gauge section with Duisburg route 901; see note
Essen Stadtbahn	light rail	standard	RH, stubs	?	route U18 runs to Mülheim; route U17 runs to Gelsenkirchen
Essen trams	trams	metre	RH, stubs	?	route 104 runs to Mülheim, route 102 runs to Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen / Bochum trams	trams	metre	RH, stubs	?	dual-gauge section with Essen Stadtbahn route U17
Bochum / Herne Stadtbahn	light rail	standard	RH, stubs	?	route U35 only
Dortmund Stadtbahn / trams	light rail	standard	RH, stubs	?

Note: in Mülheim, the two standard-gauge inter-system routes (Duisburg 901 and Essen U18) both terminate at Hauptbahnhof tram station, but do not connect there.

Land Nordrhein-Westfalen: other areas

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
Köln / Bonn Stadtbahn	light rail	standard	RH, stubs	?	interurban routes run on HGK lines

Land Rheinland-Pfalz

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
Brohltalbahn	heavy rail	metre	n/a	?

Land Saarland

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
Saarbrücken trams	trams	?	RH	?

Land Sachsen

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
Dresden trams	trams	1450 mm	RH	?
Leipzig trams	trams	1458 mm	RH, circles	?

Land Sachsen-Anhalt

Land Schleswig-Holstein

Land Thüringen

System	Type	Track	Route	Electrification	Comment
Erfurt trams	trams	???	RH	?
Nordhausen trams	trams	metre	RH, circles	?	through running onto Harz metre-gauge