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Changing trains in Mannheim

Since several train lines come together in Mannheim and then split up again, this is a place that lots of travelers know because they have changed trains here.

If all goes well, your new train will be on the other side of the same platform, with the 1st class opposite the 1st class and the 2nd class opposite the 2nd class. (Sometimes they mess up, but in general it works pretty well.)

In the photo we are facing south. The train on the right has just come from Berlin via Frankfurt, and will continue on to Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg and Munich. The one on the left has come along the Rhine River and will continue on to Karlsruhe and Basel.

They might seem to be the wrong way around, since Basel is straight ahead and Stuttgart is off to the left, but in fact the two lines go along together for a few minutes and then the Stuttgart train starts gaining altitude and crosses over the Basel line on a bridge.

Usually the two trains leave a minute or so apart, but sometimes they leave together and go right next to each other on parallel tracks for several minutes before splitting up, so you can establish eye-contact with some nice person in the other train, then your train gets a bit ahead so you lose her, but then her train speeds up so you see her again for a minute before she disappears irrevocably in the direction of Basel, sniff, she was so lovely....

Second photo: Inside the main railroad station in Mannheim.

Mode: TO

Type: Train