Leipzig (dpa) – Rail customers in the south-east will get to their destination at least partially faster and easier from mid-December. With the new timetable from December 12, Deutsche Bahn will be using more trains on some ICE routes – for example in the direction of southern Germany, as it announced on Thursday.
In the evening, for example, an additional Sprinter is to drive from Berlin to Munich, which only stops in Halle, Erfurt and Nuremberg. The plan is for the particularly fast ICE to stop in Erfurt at 9.47 p.m. and bring passengers to the Bavarian capital within two and a quarter hours. A connection in the opposite direction is planned from Munich at around 8 p.m.
Regardless of the new timetable, the Sprinter in the direction of Munich will soon be traveling faster again: Work on a major construction site between Nuremberg and Munich should be finished on November 21. The journey time between Erfurt and Munich would then normally only be 2 hours and 15 minutes, the train said.
Mondays to Saturdays there will also be an additional ICE trip from Munich via Erfurt, Halle, Bitterfeld and Berlin. On Sundays, this ICE is supposed to stop in Lutherstadt Wittenberg and Leipzig instead of Halle and Bitterfeld.
From Berlin there should be a fast direct connection to Dresden (9:07 p.m.) Mondays to Saturdays at 7.16 p.m. The late connection from 9 p.m. should only run on Fridays and Saturdays.
The railway is also promising individual improvements to its services from Leipzig. A late direct connection to Frankfurt am Main should replace an earlier connection with a change in Erfurt, said the railway.
Deutsche Bahn will sell tickets for the new period from October 13th.
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