Hannover connection on Bahn

When you look up the trains on www.bahn.de it tells you. Click on the "expand" button so you can see the individual trains and arrival and departure times for each train, then it says the "Gleis" numbr beside the time.
If you already have a booked ticket (PDF or old fashioned paper), it will also say on the ticket.

If you look at the example PDF ticket here, it says:

Köln 13:54 Gleis 6
Ulm 17:06 Gleis 2

Be aware, though, that the track can change due to unforeseen circumstances. They usually announce the track of connecting trains as you approach the station. I would go with this information.

This is the webpage you should go to for schedules and track numbers.

The station in Hannover is laid out in a very straight forward plan, with tracks 1-14 in order. They are paired around platforms, with 1 and 2, 3 and 4, etc sharing platforms and connected with a tunnel underneath.

What is the date and departure time from Amsterdam? For every Amsterdam to Munich connection I find with a change in Hannover, you have more than half an hour to change trains there (almost always track 9 to track 4).

The important things are 1) be at the end of the car, by the door, when the trains stops, and 2) know the platform numbers of your connection (ask the conductor on the first train). When the train stops, get off and follow the herd to the stairs. Once in the tunnel, locate the large number sign for the connecting track and go to those stairs. When you get to the platform, there is usually a status board for that train above the track. Check to see that the train number and destination are correct. Sometimes, if you have a long connection time, a different train might use the platform earlier. Don't get on that train.

In the last 15 years (hundreds of connections), I've never had a train arrive or depart from a track different than the one shown on the schedule. Last time that happened to me was in 1988.

Thanks... Didn't know Gleis was track - going to have to learn more German
I am coming into track 7 at 12:32 and leaving on track 12 at 12:40

The webpage to which I provided a link above is in English, so it says "Platform" (technically, Gleis, is track, not platform. Platform is Bahnsteig).

OK, I see it now. I was looking at Amsterdam to Munich. Still should still be enough time if you are prepared.

When you see the schedule boards in German stations, Ankunft is arrival, Abfahrt is departure. Arrival boards are white, departure boards are "mustard". If you see verspätet on the status board above the track, that means the train's delayed.

"In the last 15 years (hundreds of connections), I've never had a train arrive or depart from a track different than the one shown on the schedule" In four years of living in Germany and using Deutsche Bahn a few times a month, I encountered this situation 3-4 times a year. It didn't incovenience me at all, but it does happen.

I ride the trains all the time and yes, they do change tracks on occasion. Mostly due to construction. Sometimes it is also last minute and this will be because of technical problems, but they announce it on the train. Don't count on this announcement being in English. Hannover is not a dead end station so it doesn't really matter where you are at on the train except to be by the doors.

"Don't count on this announcement being in English."

Amen to that. I understand a lot of German, but I'm never quite prepared for the numbers, which look the same in German as they do in English, to be in German. By the time I realize I have to think in German, I've missed the train/track numbers in German.

It's best to be in the approximate middle of the train coming into Hannover, as the tunnel is in the middle of the platform. There are stairs leading down to the tunnel from either side, but the tunnel is still in the middle.