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Has DB changed train times?

Posted by (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) on

Hi,
I plan on purchasing P2P tickets for our upcoming trip in September. I have been playing around with various routes and notice that when I use a date in July verses a date in August I get different departure times. And it seems like the length of the trip seems longer as well. Have they changed their time schedules?

Here's an example this is for July 15th

Amsterdam Centraal Th, 15.07.10 dep 08:04 4:27 2 ICE, EC, MRB from 58,00 EUR
Bacharach Th, 15.07.10 arr 12:31

Then when I look at a an August date (Aug 10th) That route is not there. The closest thing I get is this:

Amsterdam Centraal Tu, 10.08.10 dep 07:11 7:20 1 ICE, MRB from 58,00 EUR

Notice the time? It's much longer. Is this there fall schedule? Am I making sence? What's going on?

Posted by
19274 posts

It looks like the ICE from Amsterdam to Köln to Basel now takes a different route or makes more or longer stops in Netherlands and starts earlier, at 7:11 and doesn't get into Köln until 10:51 (was 10:45). The EC to Koblenz still leaves at 10:53 from across the platform. But apparently they consider that too tight a connection.

The ICE in July goes to Köln by way of Düsseldorf. The changed route in August drops Düsseldorf and goes to Köln by way of Eindhofen (the airport RyanAir uses for Amsterdam). But there is an IC that leaves Amsterdam 3 min earlier than the ICE and gets to Eindhoven 15 min earlier, so why bother. But the IC doesn't go farther than Eindhoven. This change allows RyanAir passengers to get to Köln faster.

Posted by
8700 posts

On the DB site the 08:04 train reappears on 23 August and continues from that date forward, including September. Why it doesn't appear in early August is a question I can't answer.

Posted by
19274 posts

Yes, the schedule for that 7:11 ICE out of Amsterdam, ICE 235, has a note at the bottom, "not every day, 25. Jul until 22. Aug 2010, 16. until 24. Oct 2010".

Could it have something to do with vacations?

And the 8:04 ICE (105) has the following note,"daily, not 22. until 24. May 2010, 20., 27. Jun, 25. Jul until 22. Aug 2010, 16. until 24. Oct 2010 (Utrecht Centraal --> Basel SBB) ".

BTW, when you get the list of connections (3 or 4), click on the [>] symbol at the LH side of a connection to get an expanded schedule showing all of the trains in that connection. Each train number is a link which will open a detailed schedule for that train, including the days of operation.

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