Metropolitan station

Metropolbahnhof is a category in the train path pricing system of DB Netz AG .

As part of the new train path pricing system in 2018, DB Netz AG introduced the “Metropolitan Stations” and “High-volume border points” category.

Sections of day long-distance traffic that lie between two such stations or border points fall under the speed-dependent tariff "Metro Day", even if stops are made at non-metropolitan stations in between. If these connections only touch one or no such train station or border point, or do not begin or end in such a train station, these sections fall under the more favorable uniform tariff "Basic".

This group of metropolitan train stations contains traffic stations that are used by more than 50,000 passengers per day. Most of them are therefore category 1 and 2 stations and larger S-Bahn stations. Of the 21 category 1 stations, only Dresden Hauptbahnhof does not fall into the metropolitan station category.

High-volume border points were defined to map metropolitan traffic abroad. This includes border operations points with more than 5,250 long-distance trains in the last completed network timetable period.

The list is updated every five years, i.e. for the first time for the 2023 network timetable, based on the 2020 data.

Due to the fact that EU Directive 2012/34 was not adopted into German law in good time, the official introduction of the metropolitan station category originally planned for 2017 did not take place until the train path pricing system 2018.

Overview

The following traffic stations are considered to be metropolitan train stations:

• Berlin Central Station
• Berlin Alexanderplatz
• Berlin Friedrichstrasse
• Berlin Gesundbrunnen
• Berlin Ostbahnhof
• Berlin Potsdamer Platz
• Berlin Ostkreuz
• Berlin Südkreuz
• Berlin West Cross
• Berlin Zoological Garden
• Bremen Hbf
• Bonn Central Station
• Dortmund Central Station
• Duisburg Central Station
• Düsseldorf main station
• Essen Central Station
• Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
• Frankfurt (Main) Hauptwache
• Frankfurt (Main) Airport ( regional and long-distance train stations )
• Frankfurt (Main) Konstablerwache
• Freiburg (Breisgau) central station
• Hamburg Central Station
• Hamburg-Altona
• Hamburg dam gate
• Hamburg-Harburg
• Hamburg Jungfernstieg
• Hanover Central Station
• Karlsruhe main station
• Karlsruhe Albtal train station
• Köln Hbf
• Cologne Fair / Deutz
• Leipzig Central Station
• Mainz Central Station
• Mannheim Central Station
• Munich central station
• Munich East
• Munich Marienplatz
• Munich Karlsplatz
• Munich-Pasing
• Munich Rosenheimer Platz
• Münster (Westf) central station
• Nuremberg Central Station
• Potsdam Central Station
• Stuttgart Central Station
• Stuttgart city center

The following operating points are considered to be high-volume border points

• Aachen south border
• Aachen west border
• Bad Schandau border
• Basel border
• Basel border Muttenz
• Emmerich border
• Throat border
• Kufstein border
• Saarbrücken border
• Salzburg border

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netz AG: Rail Network Terms of Use 2018 Point 6.2.1.2.1 Metro Day. (No longer available online.) 2017, archived from the original on April 20, 2017 ; Retrieved April 19, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Felix Berschin: The train path pricing system 2017. In: nahverkehrsberatung.de , February 2015, accessed on November 3, 2016 (PDF).
3. ↑ DB Netz AG: Rail Network Terms of Use 2018 Point 6.0 Definitions. (No longer available online.) 2017, archived from the original on April 20, 2017 ; Retrieved April 19, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ DB Netz AG: List of metropolitan train stations and their operating points. (No longer available online.) 2017, archived from the original on February 3, 2017 ; Retrieved February 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ DB AG: Rail Network Conditions of Use 2018. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 20, 2017 ; Retrieved February 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Railway Revue International 3/2015
7. ^ DB AG: List of metropolitan train stations and their operating locations. (No longer available online.) 2017, archived from the original on February 3, 2017 ; Retrieved February 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ DB Netz AG: List of metropolitan train stations and their operating points, as of December 10, 2017. 2017, accessed July 10, 2018 . 
9. ^ DB Netz AG: List of high-volume border points. (No longer available online.) 2017, archived from the original on February 3, 2017 ; Retrieved February 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.