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Travelling in UK vs. Germany
MOW:
--- Quote from: SouthPaw on 04.08.2007, 18:05:12 ---Top Tip: In general, departure boards at German railway stations ONLY show the Train Number, Destination and Platform. Fortunately, the online journey planner shows train numbers so you know what you're looking for, and there are departure sheets at the stations which show them as well.
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By the way, the departure sheets and the online timetables, e.g. http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/bhftafel.exe/en?seqnr=5&ident=1k.028879203.1186455825& also don't usually show all intermediate stations. Only up to the symbol http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/img/sq_sep.gif every station is listed, after that only those considered important. For example:
05:40 EC 7 Chur
Bremen Hbf 05:40 - Diepholz 06:07 - Osnabrück Hbf 06:35 - Münster(Westf)Hbf 07:01 Dortmund Hbf 07:33 - Duisburg Hbf 08:11 - Düsseldorf Hbf 08:24 - Köln Hbf 08:50 - Mannheim Hbf 11:21 - Chur 16:43
Avalanche:
--- Quote from: doco on 06.08.2007, 00:33:36 ---
To get at least mildly on-topic again, one concept you'll see in Germany an awful lot is the concept of hub cities. It's a good idea to know the larger waypoints on your route, no matter whether you're travelling by car or rail. Whilst some countries (like the US and the UK) are more adhering to the idea of directional location (i.e. Interstate 6 West and M1 (The North)), in the German system the waypoints, not the general directions are given. Observe the following motorway butterfly:
Let's say you're travelling from Bremen to Cologne, which is roughly in north-south direction, with a slight slant to the west. You'll notice that there are no signs pointing to Cologne. Yet the A1 sign does point to Osnabrück, which, as it is on top of the sign, is the most distant waypoint on the road. Therefore, going from Bremen to Cologne, you'd need to memorize that you get past Osnabrück, then Münster, then Dortmund.... you get the idea. Likewise, the next exit ahead past the current one will be Groß Ippener, but it won't tell you three interchanges ahead.
Another good advice is to familiarise yourself with at least the basic combinations for car number plates. They're used in many cases, and knowing at least the shorthands for the larger cities facilitates things a bit for the experienced travellers.
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I have a question regarding the roads in Germany. I'm looking at multimap and a road map and the roads have numbers like the A2, A3 and A4, but also have numbers like the E40 etc... on the same road. Am i right in thinking that in the above the picture, the [1] (im guessing that means the road is the A1) and [E37] on the road is the same road? So if i use the A numbers i just look at the blue road number instead of the green or orange road numbers?
But the entire route, all the way from Calais to just north of Suhl at Erfurt has the name E40. So will we be able to just follow signs for the E40 all the way from Calais, via Brussels, Liege, Koln, all the way to Erfurt?, then to Suhl.
Thanks
Avalanche
Runo:
AFAIK you're right. The E-Numbers are "European route XY", see here. But still the German "Autobahnen" all get their (national) A-Number. So yes - they just have two names (at least while they go through Germany).
Jojo
Avalanche:
Thank you :D
Makes my job of getting us there by car a whole lot easier :D
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