Rheinpfeil
Sign in to saveThe word Rheinpfeil was used to name a number of express trains that ran in Germany between the 1950s and 1991. For much of that period, a train carrying the name Rheinpfeil also linked Germany with at least one neighbouring country.
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- Country
- Germany
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- DB 103 103.JPG
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- TEE Rheinpfeil
- track gauge
- standard-gauge railway
- inception
- 1952-05-18
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1991-06-02
- date of official opening
- 1952-05-18
- date of official closure
- 1991-06-02
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The word Rheinpfeil was used to name a number of express trains that ran in Germany between the 1950s and 1991. For much of that period, a train carrying the name Rheinpfeil also linked Germany with at least one neighbouring country.
Rheinpfeil is a German word meaning "Rhine arrow", and alludes to the Rhine valley, which always formed part of the route of the train carrying that name.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rheinpfeil” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.