More frequent trains to Westerland or directly to the St. Anton ski area

With the Deutsche Bahn timetable change on December 11, people in the north should benefit from additional connections. "The Basel-Cologne-Dortmund ICE line will be extended to Hamburg, which will further improve the quality of the axis between the cathedral city and the Hanseatic city," said the railway on Monday. In addition, Hamburg will now receive a daily ICE Sprinter from Cologne instead of only on Fridays and Sundays.

Trips to North Friesland will also be increased. In addition to the existing daily Cologne-Westerland connection, there will be an early intercity direct connection from Cologne to and from North Friesland to Westerland on Sylt every day all year round instead of just seasonally. The group also provided skiers with an upgraded connection to Austria. In the future, ICE connections operating on Saturdays in winter will go all the way to St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria's largest contiguous ski area.

In general, long-distance trains should be running more frequently and faster on many important long-distance routes of Deutsche Bahn from the timetable change on December 11 - especially between the north-west and the south of Germany. "With the new timetable, we are taking the next step on the way to the Germany cycle and are clearly setting the course for further growth," said DB long-distance passenger transport manager Michael Peterson.

This is made possible primarily by the completion of the new Wendlingen-Ulm line, which along with Stuttgart 21 is part of the Stuttgart-Ulm railway project. There should also be more connections to Frankfurt Airport, especially from cities in the north. The group also announced further connections abroad, in particular to Switzerland and Poland. Night train connections are also to be expanded. These are usually operated by the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB).