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Rhine-Main-NeckarGermany (Europe)
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Try the following tour, recommended by residents or metro enthusiasts:
There's a way to go through one of Germany's most populated metro areas by means of commuter rail (S-Bahn) and light rail (Stadtbahn) only. You can go from Stuttgart to Karlsruhe and on to Ludwigshafen. From 2017 or so, you will even be able to continue to Frankfurt. Of course you can go to Frankfurt today also, but only on mainline trains. There are different routes through the region. And it can get a little confusing as in the four different S-Bahn systems involved, lines always have the same names. So each system has its own line S5 for example, but all the S5s have nothing in common except the name.
From Stuttgart, there's only one way to get to Karlsruhe: Stuttgart's line S5 to the terminal Bietigheim-Bissingen. The confusion starts here as you change to a light-rail of the same name, S5. This is Karlsruhe's S5, however. From here you have different options. The quickest way is to alight at Karlsruhe-Durlach and board the (Rhine-Neckar) S3 to Mannheim and Ludwigshafen. You can also catch S3 from the main station (Hbf). If you have more time, you can stay on the Karlsruhe S5 as it passes through the city centre, change somewhere on the way to lines S51 or S52 to Germersheim. From there, catch the Rhine-Neckar S3 or S4 to Ludwigshafen and Mannheim. From 2017, in Mannheim, catch the new Rhine-Neckar S5 to Darmstadt and change there to the Frankfurt (Rhine-Main) S3 to Frankfurt.
Rhine-Main-Neckar is part of the Rhine-Main-Neckar cluster of metro/subway cities with the following urban rail connections:
Generic Links for Rhine-Main-Neckar S-Bahn
Wikipedia entry at wikipedia.org
Urbanrail.net entry at urbanrail.net
Railway Gazette search at railwaygazette.com
Discussion at skyscrapercity.com
System photos at Google Images
City information at wikipedia.org
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