December 2024
- New feature: subscribe to lifts and be informed in real time via push notification on your mobile phone if they are out of order or come back in service. We describe how this works here
- The coach sequence is now available for many trains, consistent with the displays on the platform, including the stop position on the track. By clicking on an individual coach, further information can be called up, e.g. on the amenities. It can be called up via our time table
- Some stations have been given new names for the timetable change. The old URLs will be redirected
November 2024
- More data on elevators at more railway stations
October 2024
- Increasingly, stations of the future are being emphasised by unique design elements with regional flair. Why not pay us a visit in Bad Oeynhausen or Apolda!
- Integration of major disruption information, e.g. in the event of severe weather or strikes, including FAQ section
- New possibilities for designing station pages with picture galleries and other interactive elements
- Fixed bugs in the station map & general improvements
- Edited icons on the station and timetable detail pages
September 2024
- New and improved railway station map
- Optimised for mobile phones
- User Experience is based on familiar map apps
- Can also be used with screen readers
- Important locations at the railway station are listed individually in the legend
- Icons for the locations on the map can be clicked on and are linked to further information in the legend
- Ability to filter categories at the bottom of the screen
- Map with selected filters shareable via share function
- Stops, lockers, car parks and tracks have a link in the legend for more information on the respective location
- Current availability of lifts and escalators highlighted in colour and supplemented with text for screen readers
- Easier to find locations in the same category on other levels
- Copy car park addresses to the clipboard at the touch of a button - this makes it easier to paste them into a navigation app
- Prominent feedback function: We look forward to your feedback!
- Direct linking is now possible:
- The departure board filters (e.g. S-Bahn, bus) are now part of the URL and can be linked directly:
bahnhof.de/en/ulm-hbf/departure?transport=bus - The accessibility equipment also remembers the track in the URL:
bahnhof.de/en/ulm-hbf/accessibility-equipment?platform=2 - The filters selected in the map are supplied in the URL:
bahnhof.de/en/fulda/map?group=barrier-free
- The departure board filters (e.g. S-Bahn, bus) are now part of the URL and can be linked directly:
August 2024
- Share button as a way to share a page with other people (on supported browsers)
- Back to top button at the bottom of each page
- Improved full screen view of the station map
- Fix for line colours on some trams and buses
July 2024
- Expansion of the automated tests in our code base to improve the performance and stability of the timetable
- Bug Fix: on Windows devices our font is displayed more legibly even in small font sizes
- Clear communication for stations for which we have no information regarding accessibility equipment
- Improvement of technical error messages:
- if something goes wrong in the browser, we get more information and can rectify it more quickly
- Performance optimisation:
- faster page loading thanks to smarter, server-side caching
- Complementing our range of railway stations:
- 12 DB InfraGO-operated stations in Switzerland
- 277 operated by DB Regio-Netze
- Station detail page now more appealing:
- Linked articles arranged horizontally and accessible by scrolling
- The new presentation of the article links:
- Text description of article links now below the image, uniform on mobile phones and larger screens
- On the homepage, station details page and discover page
- Typeface now with revised bold and italic styles
- Contact information for some transport operators updated at bahnhof.de/en/transport-operators
- Revised, space-efficient design for the banners above the menu bar (e.g. EURO communication, severe weather warning)
- The link to the station map can now be found higher up on the station page for better orientation
- Timetable
- Correction of the line number of trains that continue as another line
- Onward journey as another line is shown with a blue instead of a white (inverted) background, as it is a scheduled onward journey
June 2024
- Timetable
- Certain departures outside of the station are marked with transfer information. For example:
- Zugspitzbahn in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Trams in the Karlsruhe area that are displayed as an S-Bahn
- Bridge numbers for the Ferrys at Hamburg-Landungsbrücken are now displayed
- Certain departures outside of the station are marked with transfer information. For example:
- The appearance and context of the Schedule and Schedule Amendments has been improved
- Chatbot now available in English
May 2024
- New link at the end of articles that leads back to the station page
- Car parks are now separated into DB-owned and other car parks
- Timetable
- Now to be found in the combined link Departure and arrival
- Delays are now displayed to the minute – just like on the displays at the stations
- The icons for cancelled departures are displayed inverted
- Minor optimisations to the display of replacement service departures:
- For replacement buses, the replaced S-Bahn line is displayed in the respective colour, if available
- If the time of the replaced train differs, this is displayed in one message instead of two to save space
- At the customer’s request, the information and link to the stop plan is displayed for each replacement service journey
April 2024
- Linking of live departures and arrivals on the timetable page
- Brief descriptions of the improvements to our major features timetable, station map and departure plans initiated by user feedback can be found here: New services at bahnhof.de
- Important special messages, e.g. about severe weather or strikes, are now displayed at the top in the form of eye-catching banners
- Optimised font size of street names in our station map
- Improvements to the VoiceOver function, e.g. for station addresses and postcodes
- A/B test for navigation through the website:
- A randomly selected number of users are shown a version of the website that displays the navigation elements in a customised way
- Users who accept our cookies support this test
- By analysing the data of their navigation behaviour on bahnhof.de, we will be able to identify the variant that works better and display it for everyone in future
- The overviews of lifts at a given station now also show the operators of this lift – for example in Lauffen (Neckar)
- Open-air and covered car parks are now displayed with a note and pictogram
March 2024
- In the app version of bahnhof.de, navigation at the bottom of the screen is now easier and no longer conflicts with the operating system’s navigation elements
- Station names now correspond in typography to the station signs – including different font sizes (e.g. regions are written slightly smaller)
- Airport stations are now labelled with an aircraft symbol
- The same station names are used on the departure/arrival board as on the station detail pages (these differed in particular for S-Bahn stations, as they were sometimes written with/without city names)
- Line colours added to the departure/arrival board:
- S-Bahn Hannover
- S-Bahn Mittelelbe
- S-Bahn Breisgau
- Tram Freiburg (Breisgau)
- Fixed bug that sometimes displayed the wrong line colour for locally overlapping S-Bahn areas (example: S-Bahn Rhein-Neckar and S-Bahn Rhein-Main)
- The display of substitute trains for S-Bahn and regional trains has been improved
- Abbreviations in station names are pronounced for screen readers; this can also be displayed via tooltip on desktop
- A crossed-out WI-FI symbol is now displayed when a train’s WI-FI fails
- Introduction of the changelog
February 2024
- Line colours added to the departure/arrival board:
- Karlsruhe/Heilbronn light rail
- The overlapping S-Bahn/light rail systems of Rhine/Main, Rhine/Neckar and Karlsruhe/Heilbronn light rail are now correctly separated by line colour
- Line colours in outer districts of some cities are now displayed
January 2024
- Other public transport lines are now also displayed on the departure/arrival board (U-Bahn, Stadtbahn, tram, suspension railway, bus, ferry)
- The departure/arrival board can now be filtered by long-distance transport, regional transport and S-Bahn
- The long-distance transport on the departure/arrival board has been given a larger time window
- Timetables and associated change timetables are offered as PDF downloads on the station detail pages
December 2023
- Station map completely updated and improved
- Improvements to screen reader use on iOS and Android devices
- Optimisation of accessibility in the station search field
- Adaptation of S-Bahn Hamburg line colours to new line structure
November 2023
- ‘Disruptions’ added to the departure/arrival board
- The main platform height in cm was added to the accessibility overview for each platform