KEITH FENDER outlines plans for a regular interval timetable for Germany in 2030
In 1990 Germany was reunited as a single country after 45 years of Cold War division. Assuming current planning comes to fruition, 40 years after reunification the country should have a regular interval higher frequency national rail timetable (in German, Taktfahrplan). In 2018 the German Government announced it wanted to see the country adopt a regular interval timetable, similar to that used in Switzerland since 1982 – and enhanced there several times since.