6-530: The word Rheinpfeil was used to name a number of express trains that ran in Germany between the 1950s and 1991. For much of that period, a train carrying the name Rheinpfeil also linked Germany with at least one neighbouring country. Rheinpfeil is a German word meaning "Rhine arrow", and alludes to the Rhine valley, which always formed part of the route of the train carrying that name. During its time as
12-799: A first-class-only Trans Europe Express (TEE), the Rheinpfeil 's formation ( consist ) included a "vista-dome car" , a rarity on European railways. Seating in the dome car was unreserved. The Rheinpfeil operated as a TEE for the last time on 25 September 1971, then becoming a two-class InterCity train. Its dome cars were transferred to the TEE Erasmus in 1973. With the summer 1987 timetable change, on 31 May, Rheinpfeil became EuroCity train number 8/9, running Hannover–Cologne–Basel– Chur . The train carried two through DB second-class carriages Hannover to Rome , conveyed south of Basel by an ordinary express train, running via Bern and
18-577: The Lötschberg railway line. The core of the Rheinpfeil' s route was the West Rhine Railway , a 185 km (115 mi) section of line through the Rhine valley: The train continued southeast via Frankfurt Hbf and Wurzburg Hbf to Munich until its route was changed in 1979 to run via Mannheim Hbf and Karlsruhe Hbf towards Switzerland. However, the northern and southern termini of
24-596: The German Schnellzug . Though many high-speed rail services are express, not all trains described as express have been much faster than other services; trains in the United Kingdom in the 19th century were called expresses as long as they had a "journey speed" of at least 40 miles per hour (64 km/h). Express trains sometimes have higher fares than other routes, and bearers of a rail pass may be required to pay an extra fee. First class may be
30-423: The only one available. Some express train routes that overlap with local train service may stop at stations near the tail ends of the line. This can be done, for example, where there is no supplemental local service to those stations. Express train routes may also become local at times when ridership is not high enough to justify parallel local service, such as at nighttime. This rail-transport related article
36-536: The train, varied a great deal over the years. [REDACTED] Media related to Rheinpfeil at Wikimedia Commons Express train An express train is a type of passenger train that makes few or no stops between its origin and destination stations, usually major destinations, providing faster service than local trains that stop at many or all of the stations along their route. They are sometimes referred to by terms such as "fast train" or "high-speed train", e.g.
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