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Changing trains in Würzburg

'Mode': TO
Category: Train
Getting TO/AROUND: The train on the right, on track 4, is a first-generation InterCityExpress which has been in operation since 1991. You can always tell a first generation ICE because they have a decorative but dysfunctional hump on the roof of the dining car -- but at least they HAVE a real dining car!

This particular train is ICE 583, which left Hamburg-Altona, in northern Germany, at 6:47 in the morning. After three more stops in Hamburg it headed south via Hannover, Göttingen, Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe and Fulda, and arrived in Würzburg right on time (imagine that!) at 10:30. After a two minute halt it will continue south to Munich, with a stop in Augsburg on the way.

The train on the left, on track 5, is ICE 721, which left Münster (Westfalen) at 6:03 in the morning. This is a third generation InterCityExpress which means that it is capable of doing up to 300 km/hour (usually only 280 in actual practice) on the newest high-speed railroad link between Cologne and Frankfurt.

It stopped at Frankfurt Airport and Frankfurt South Station, which is where I got on. After a nine minute halt here in Würzburg it will continue on to Nürnberg, which is its final destination.

These third generation ICEs don't have a BordRestaurant (dining car), just a BordBistro run by one overworked employee. Originally in the ICE3 there was standing room only in these BordBistros, but after massive protests that have finally put in half a dozen tables so it is at least possible to sit and have breakfast, as I did on the way from Frankfurt to Würzburg.

Since these two trains are on opposite sides of the same platform it is of course very easy for passengers to change from one train to another -- especially on a day like today when both trains are on time!

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Transportation: Bicycle station

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Written by Nemorino

on Jul 31, 2005

Bicycle station in Würzburg

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Bicycle
Getting TO/AROUND: Würzburg is one of a growing number of German cities (like Aschaffenburg, Gera and Leipzig, to name just a few examples) to have a bicycle station at the main railroad station.

While this one has some minus points, like the old-fashioned "rim-killer" bicycle stands that are only half-covered by a narrow roof, it still meets a need and is used daily by hundreds of cyclists, who can leave their bicycles here (and have them repaired if necessary) while they go off on the train somewhere.

You can also rent a bicycle here.

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Transportation: Main Valley Bicycle Route

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Updated by Nemorino

on Aug 7, 2005

Bicycle Route signs (click to

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'Mode': TO
Category: Bicycle
Getting TO/AROUND: Würzburg is very nearly in the middle of the five-hundred-kilometer Main Valley Bicycle Route (Maintal Radweg). From here you can cycle 246 km upstream to Bayreuth via Ochsenfurt (top sign in the photo) or 243 km downstream to Mainz by way of Zellingen (bottom sign). The middle sign points to the main railroad station (Hauptbahnhof), in case you have finished cycling and want to take your bicycle home on the train. (Enlarge the photo to see these signs.)

I have cycled most of the lower half of this route at one time or another, some sections more than once, but haven't been on the upper half yet.

To find out more, click on the link to get to the Main River Bicycle Tour on my Germany page.

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Transportation: Trams and buses

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Written by Nemorino

on Jul 31, 2005

In the tram (streetcar)