Deutsche Bahn - DB (tel: 11861, in Germany only or 01805 996 633; www.bahn.de) is the national railway provider. The network is modern, extensive and highly efficient. Services include high-speed InterCityExpress (ICE) trains (between major cities in Germany), InterCity (IC) and EuroCity (EC) trains (serving German and European cities respectively), and InterRegio (IR) and InterRegio Express (IRE) trains (linking different regions of the country).

The Hauptbahnhof (main railway station), Am Hauptbahnhof Strasse (tel: (069) 2653 4581), is the busiest in Germany. Facilities include tourist information, a bank, ATMs, a chemist and many other shops and eating outlets.

Rail services: The high-speed TGV/ICE connection links Frankfurt with Paris Gare de l'Est in less than four hours, while there are other IC and EC services to destinations throughout Germany and abroad. ICE trains serve a number of cities, including Basel, Bonn, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Munich, Hamburg and Berlin. The ICE Cologne-Frankfurt link is the fastest on the network, at just 70 minutes (58 minutes to Frankfurt Flughafen). There are also night trains on some routes, including the CityNightLine service (tel: 01805 141 514; www.citynightline.ch) from Vienna West, Basel and Zurich. IR, IRE, RE (Regional Express) RB (Regional Bahn) and S-Bahn trains serve regional and city destinations.

Frankfurt airport has its own long-distance train station in the AIRail Terminal, with regular direct ICE services to Basel, Hanover, Amsterdam, Stuttgart and Munich.