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)
    • 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 MerkurBergbahn funicular (Site in German)
• Bad Herrenalb a funicular links the railway station with the Schwarzwald Panorama Hotel (Site contains no details relating to funicular)
• Bad Schandau Kirnitzschtalbahn, a rural tramway (Site in German)
• Bad Wildbad Sommerbergbahn funicular
• Bielefeld trams (Site in German)
• Bonn local trains and trams
• Brandenburg an der Havel trams (Site in German)
• Braunschweig trams (Site in German)
• Bremen trams
• Bremerhaven proposed trams (Site in German)
• Chemnitz
  • City-Bahn regional tram-train services (Site in German)
  • CVAG city trams
• Cottbus trams
• Darmstadt trams (Site in German)
• Dessau trams (Site in German)
• Dresden trams and funiculars, one of which is an unusual suspended monorail
• Durlach (near Karlsruhe) Turmbergbahn funicular (Site in German)
• Erfurt trams (Site in German)
• Frankfurt am Main
  • Metro (U-bahn) and trams
  • Skyline people mover connecting the different terminals of Frankfurt Airport (Website contains few details of people mover)
• Frankfurt (Oder) trams (Site in German)
• Freiburg
  • Trams (Site in German)
  • Funicular (Site in German)
• Gera trams (Site in German)
• Görlitz trams
• Gotha trams, including an out-of-town service to the Thüringerwald (Site in German, does not adapt well to screen size)
• Halberstadt trams (Site in German)
• Halle (Saale) trams (Site in German)
• Hamburg local trains, metro and a freight service
• Hannover trams and pre-metro
• Heidelberg funiculars (for trams see RNV below)
• Heilbronn Stadtbahn tram-train (Site in German with autotranslation to English)
• Jena trams (Site in German)
• Karlsruhe trams, local trains, and the tram-train network
• Kassel trams and RegioTram tram-trains
• Kehl is served by cross-border trams from the French city of Strasbourg
• Kiel proposed trams (Site in German)
• Köln local trains, metro and trams
• Künzelsau funicular (Site in German)
• Leipzig trams
• Ludwigsburg proposed trams (Site in German)
• Magdeburg trams (Site in German)
• Mainz trams (Site in German)
• München
  • MVV Metro, trams and local trains
  • Airport Shuttle underground peoplemover between the two sections of Terminal 2 (Website contains no reference to people mover although its route is indicated on the airport map)
• Nordhausen trams, including a tram-train service operating on the lines of the Harzer Schmalspurbahn (Nordhausen site in German)
• Nürnberg Metro (U-bahn), trams (CityBahn) and historic tramway depot
• Plauen trams (Site in German)
• Potsdam trams (Site in German)
• Regional-Stadtbahn Neckar-Alb proposed tram-train network in the Tübingen and Reutlingen area (Site in German)
• RNV trams in Heidelberg, Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, and the Rhein-Haardtbahn interurban
• Rostock trams (Site in German)
• 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-Bahn21 suspended monorail serving Dortmund University
  • Sky-Train Düsseldorf Airport suspended monorail connecting the Airport terminals with the nearby regional rail station
  • Wuppertal Schwebebahn historic suspended monorail following the course of the Wupper river
• Weil am Rhein is served by cross-border trams from the Swiss city of Basel
• Wiesbaden Nerobergbahn funicular (Site mainly in German with some information in English)
• Würzburg trams (Site in German)
• Zwickau trams (Site in German)