(L) Upper level with the east-west running tracks of the Berlin Hauptbahnhof
(R) Bahn Tower, Headquarter of Deutsche Bahn, located in Postdamer Platz in Berlin.


Deutsche Bahn-AG is the German national railway company, a private joint-stock company (AG).
Headquartered in Berlin, it came into existence in 1994 as the successor to the former state railways
of Germany, the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany.



(L) OSB train from Strasbourg to Offenburg
(M) The train crossed a bridge over the Rhein River, the border of France and Germany
(R) German OSB train at Offenburg station


InterCityExpress (ICE)
The InterCityExpress or ICE　is a system of high-speed trains predominantly running in Germany and
neighboring countries. It is the flagship of Deutsche Bahn.


(L) Swiss SBB-CFF train at Freiburg station (R) ICE trains entering to and leaving from the Freiburg station

(L) A station locker at Freiburg (R) The platform of Freiburg station

(L) An electric bulletin board at the plateform of Freiburg (M) A train conductor checking passengers' ticket
(R) ICE trains at Mannheim

(L) ICE trains at the plateform of Mannheim station. （R) Rail tracks of Frankfurt-am-Main railway station.

Frankfurt-am-Main railway station.

A beautiful country scene and wind generators along the railway of Deutsh Bahn
　
A beautiful country scene
The electric information board showed the train is now running at the speed of 253km/h.

ICE dinning room and a lunch ordered. It was very delicious.

A rural land scope along the railroad of Deutsch Bahn

Interior of the first class vehicle of ICE train

An electric bulletin board at the deck showed a speed of 250 km/h.

(L) Berlin Hauptbahnhof is located between 'water and sky'.
(R) ICE train from Interlaken, Switzerland arrived at the Berlin Hauptbahnhof.

A steel and glass structure above the east-west running tracks, observed at Berlin Hauptbahnhof.

ICE train with a 'Bordrestaurant car'

The Berlin Hauptbahnhof has railway tracks on two levels, running perpendicular with each other.
The level between them is used for entry and exit from the building, and for shopping.

ICE train with a restaurant car is at the underground station of Berlin Hauptbahnhof.

(L) ICE trains at the platform of lower level of Berlin Hauptbahnhof. (R) Interior of the first class ICE train

(L) A concourse of the Berlin Hauptbahnhof (R) The express train arrived from Schiphol airport, Amsterdam.

ICE and regional DB trains at the platform of upper level of Berlin Hauptbahnhof

(L) Berlin Hauptbahnhof (R) A double-deck restaurant car of ICE express


The upper level of the station has six tracks (two of which used for the Berlin S-Bahn) served by three island
platforms. The lower level has eight tracks served by four island platforms for main-line trains, plus a further
island platform for the Berlin U-Bahn. The number of train uses Berlin Hauptbahnhof is 1,800 trains, and the
number of passengers is estimated to be 350,000, at As of 2011. This station is used by the trains of InterCity
Express, Intercity, Regional Bahn and S-Bahn.


(L) Berlin Friedrichstrasse station (R) Berlin Hackescher Market station

Berlin Hackescher Market station

Berlin-Spandau DB station

(L) Berlin-Spandau DB station (M) Bar car (R) Dressing Room

(L) Interior of the first-class train (R) An electric bulletin panel displayed in the ICE train directed to Basel, Switzerland.

Basal

Basel Badischer Bahnhof ( BBB ) is a railway station situated in the city of Basel. Whilst the station is located
on Swiss soil, the platforms and part of the entrance hall are extraterritorial, belonging to Germany, and the
station is operated by the German railway company, Deutsche Bahn. A border crossing is in the passenger
tunnel between the tracks and the station hall. The shops in the station hall, however, are located in
Switzerland, and the Swiss franc is used as the official currency there. The custom's controls are located in
a tunnel between the platforms and the station hall. Passport controls were abolished when Switzerland
joined the Schengen Treaty.

Basel SBB is the central railway station in the city of Basel. Trains run by the Swiss's Federal Railways (SBB) to
destinations within Switzerland use this station,as well as Deutsche Bahn's ICE trains to Germany as well as
Zurich and Interlaken and the Cisalpino service across the Alps to Milan in Italy.
Reference: Wikipedia


Basel Badischer Bahnhof ( BBB )

(L) A plateform of Basel Badischer station (M) Railway tracks at Basel ( SBB ) station (R) Interior of the first class ICE train

Basel ( SBB ) station

ICE trains at the Basel ( SBB ) station platform.

Deutsche Bahn ( German National Railway )






In August 2011, these video clips were uploaded to the YouTube.

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Travel by Train
All railway trains should be completely smoke -free.

　Italia Rail: Trenitalia
　Rail Travel Ireland
　Railways in Helsinki, Finland
　Train in Norway, Trondheim to Oslo

　Amtrak Acela Express: Boston-Newyork
　Washington DC Metro/Union Station
　Chicago CTA Rail
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　Stockholm Arlanda Airport and Express
　Stockholm County Railways
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　Korea Train Express, Airport Express and Metro
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　China High-Speed Rail

　Portugal Metro, Railways
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　High-speed train in Spain 2010
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　Railway Travel in France 2011
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　High-speed train in Germany, Austria and Switzerland 2013

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　Gold Coast Light-Rail
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　Narita Airport-City Rail Service
　Japanese high-speed train 'Hayabusa'
　Japanese high-speed train 'Super-Komachi'

　Market Booms for new High-speed Trains
　Smoking ban in the railway trains of the world

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ドイツ鉄道はドイツの首都ベルリンに本社を置くドイツで最大の鉄道会社。ドイツ全土に鉄道網を持ち、ドイツでは最も
重要な交通手段のひとつ。ヨーロッパ有数の技術・輸送力を持つ鉄道会社である。

ICE（インターシティエキスプレス）

ドイツ鉄道の超特急列車であり、最高速度300km/hでドイツおよびヨーロッパ各地の主要都市を結んでいる。
高速線路では250km/h〜300km/hの高速運転を行い、それ以外の線区でも、区間によっては200km/hでの運転を行う
こともある。1等車・2等車・食堂車 (Bordrestaurant) または軽食堂車 (Bordbistro) で組成され、乗車には特別料金が
必要。ICEは1〜2時間間隔で定期的に運転され、これを基準にその他の列車のダイヤが決まっている。また、
主要駅ではICE・IC・EC相互間で接続がとられるほか、極力、同一ホームでの乗り換えが可能なように配慮されている。

スイスのバーゼル駅は世界でも極めて特異な存在である。市内にはSBBと言われる乗降客の多い駅の他、BBBとの略称の
バーゼル・バディッシャー駅がある。BBB駅のホームはドイツ領であるが駅舎はスイス領にある。ホームから駅舎に向かう
地下道には国境の税関が置かれているが、人の気配もなく、検査もない。これは、ヨーロッパ国家間で国境検査なしで
国境を越えることを許可したシエンゲン協定によるもので、パスポート検査も行われない。しかし、スイスは欧州聯合に
加盟していないため原則としてユーロが通用せず、スイスフランを使用している。スイス領内のSBB駅からはBBB駅
経由でドイツ国鉄のICEが走行している。ドイツ国通用のユーロパスはスイス領内のバーゼルまで有効である。


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ドイツ鉄道
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