Accelerated passenger train

The accelerated passenger train (BP) was a type of train operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

Accelerated passenger trains ran from 1922 to 1928 with no surcharge with cars of the second to fourth class over very long distances (for example from Berlin to Aachen , Frankfurt am Main , Cologne , Munich , East Prussia or Silesia ). In terms of travel speed, they were comparable to express trains . The fastest FD train from Berlin to Cologne, which is subject to a surcharge, took eight hours, while the accelerated passenger train took around twelve hours. Due to the low fares in the fourth car class, however, an inexpensive ride should be offered to passengers with low incomes. The BP trains often drove at night or on the outskirts of the day in order to save the low-income passengers an (unpaid) day of vacation.

Most train routes also ran after 1928, but were no longer marked as a separate type of train BP in the timetables.

The Deutsche Reichsbahn in the GDR (or later its legal successor in the new federal states) used accelerated passenger trains comparable to trains until the 1990s. These trains did not stop at all intermediate stations, but were not specially marked in the timetables and were not subject to a surcharge.