Happiness on rails – Bavaria's most beautiful railway routes

The journey is the destination – these Bavarian railway routes will make your journey an experience.

DB Regio Zug vor Bergpanorama

Kurt Tucholsky wrote of hearing the locomotives whistle at night, longing to visit faraway places and turning over in his bed and thinking: travel!. These Bavarian railway routes will make any journey an experience. 

For cross-border travellers: the Außerfernbahn

The Außerfernbahn is one of the most beautiful railway lines in Bavaria. From...

For cross-border travellers: the Außerfernbahn

Panoramic journey with the "Werdenfelsbahn"

As you gaze through the window of the train at the Upper Bavarian Alpine foreland and the Zugspitze...

Panoramic journey with the "Werdenfelsbahn"

The oldest long-distance railway line in Bavaria: from Augsburg to Munich

"The best thing about Augsburg is the train to Munich", Bertolt Brecht is supposed to have said. Of...

The oldest long-distance railway line in Bavaria: from Augsburg to Munich
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