Can I do this? Are there lockers or is it a desk and I get a baggage claim ticket? Are there limited hours? I’m traveling from Berlin to Wurzburg, spending the day there then taking late train to Basel. I don’t want my bags with me all day.
Posted by
California USA
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https://www.bahnhof.de/bahnhof-en/W-C3-BCrzburg-Hbf-3819864
As of today’s website information this train station has lockers for your luggage.
Posted by
OP
Ohio!
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Thanks! I’ll bookmark that and check periodically.
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19275 posts
Despite recent attempts to destroy the usefulness of the German Rail website, as witnessed by the pathetic Bahnhof map for Stuttgart (see the "Luggage storage, Stuttgart" thread, there still remain some useful maps of Bavarian stations, thanks to Bayerntakt.de. Here is the map for the Würzburg Hbf. The lockers locations are shown by a symbol with a suitcase in a square (one either side of the RH tunnel).
Posted by
Northamptonshire, England
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you will likely need Euro coins
Posted by
Eastern Iowa, USA
8073 posts
In my experience, if a German station had luggage facilities, it was lockers, and most any station of size had lockers.
Lockers were available any time the station was open, I seem to recall a limit of several days you could store something, but never came close to that, most I used required coins, no card option.
Did run into closures when terrorism concerns came up, and availability was a problem from time to time, but overall a good place to stash a bag for the day.
Posted by
Paradise
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tc: A normal morning departure from Berlin to Basel requires a long travel day of around 7 - 7.5 hours. A routing via Würzburg... WITHOUT a stopover for sightseeing... is a detour that adds 2-3 hours of actual travel time and at least one change of train to your schedule.
I like Würzburg, but in the event that W'burg is not a "must" and you are just looking to stop over somewhere interesting, you might add more boots-on-the-ground time by looking into one of the other stopover options along the faster routings.
Also, the fewer the changes, the more likely your arrival in Basel will happen as scheduled; there are nonstop departures from Berlin to Basel every 2 hours, leaving at 6:30, 8:30 and 10:30, etc. You of course would be stopping over somewhere en route (on this particular routing, Göttingen? Fulda? Frankfurt? Freiburg?) but because of this routing, this stopover could be your ONLY stopover. Once you finish sightseeing and leave for Basel, you could choose one of those later non-stops that originated in Berlin.