Czech Republic, Slovakia & Hungary

[Robert Schwandl]

Unlike in Western Europe, many first-generation tramways have survived in the eastern part of Central Europe. This book covers every tram system in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary (for Poland we are preparing a separate volume for late 2017!) as well as the two metro systems in Prague and Budapest and the numerous trolleybus systems. As always, the book is illustrated with detailed network maps, and hundreds of colour photographs of almost all the current rolling stock and many of the metro stations.

160 pages

ISBN 978 3 936573 48 0

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No longer available! > New edition late 2024!

[Robert Schwandl]

including all underground Stadtbahn systems

Germany has more urban rail networks than any other country in Europe. This book introduces you not only to all the conventional metro systems (Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Nuremberg) and the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, but also to those networks which at their station entrances boast a white U on a blue background, i.e. the systems that were originally designed to become proper metros in the long term: Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Cologne, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen/Mülheim, Bochum, Dortmund, Bielefeld and Hannover.

1st edition, Feb 2019

160 pages
20 Network maps
approx. 300 colour photos
Text German & English

ISBN 978 3 936573 57 2

[Robert Schwandl]

+ tram-train systems

In many major German cities, S-Bahn trains complement the purely urban rail systems and at the same time provide a link between the core city and the surrounding region. This book features not only the classic S-Bahn systems in Berlin and Hamburg, but all the networks which are distinguished with a white S on a green background, plus the various tram-train systems based on the Karlsruhe model (besides Karlsruhe also Chemnitz, Saarbrücken and Kassel), which are operated partly on railway tracks and partly on tramway tracks.

Published in June 2022

160 pages
Network maps
approx. 300 colour photos
Text German & English

ISBN 978 3 936573 67 1