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Bahn Train Schedules: How to interpret info with a "warning" icon.

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Fellow travelers,

We've put together a schedule for a train ride from Füssen to Interlaken. No worries there, but the route does have some rather interesting comments (warning icon) on one of the stops:

Biessenhofen
dep 8:00 - platform 4 - RE 3178

Kempten
arr 8:22 - platform 3

WARNING:
RE 3178: Biessenhofen - Kempten (Allgäu)Hbf: Construction Work: The train is cancelled between Kaufering and Buchloe. The train also stops in Buchenau (Oberbay).

RE 3178: Biessenhofen - Kempten (Allgäu)Hbf: Construction Work: Train is running 15 minutes early.

QUESTIONS:
The towns where the cancellation takes place are not listed in the overall itinerary. I am assuming that this is being noted "for my information" and does not affect my route. Is this a safe assumption? If it is stated that the train is running 15 minutes early, do I assume that the times shown on the itinerary already reflect this? In other words, if the warnings would invalidate the route, they wouldn't show the itinerary in the first place, yes?

My instinct is to trust German efficiency and buy the ticket. I'm just being paranoid.

Thoughts?

Posted by
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If I put in that schedule for tomorrow, I don't see the warnings. Apparently it applies to connections sometime in the future. So I can look at the actual warnings, please give me the date you used.

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It's explaining a detour that will happen on your route due to construction.

Posted by
19092 posts

"The towns where the cancellation takes place are not listed in the overall itinerary."

If you expand the Füssen to Interlaken Ost itinerary on the Bahn website, it shows RE 3178 as the train between Biessenhofen and Kempten. Clicking on the link, RE 3178, will show you the entire run of that train. It starts in Munich, stops in Kaufering, then in Buchloe and Kaufbeuren before getting to Biessenhofen. So the warning applies to the entire route. The cancelled segment is before you board the train to Kempten.

However, everywhere I look, from now until September, I see the same times for that train, dep Biessenhofen 8:00, arr Kempten 8:22, and there are no warning about it running early with those times. If it runs 15 minutes earlier, you will miss the connection from Füssen. You might need to start an hour earlier. Ask at the Füssen Bahnhof.

PS, are you still there? You never did give me a date.

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