Karlsruhe → Erfurt
Karlsruhe to Erfurt by train
Karlsruhe
Erfurt
A direct train runs from Karlsruhe to Erfurt, scheduled from 3 h 12 min, with 71 departures in a timetable week.
- Service
- Direct: one train, no change
- Scheduled time
- from 3 h 12 min (typically 3 h 35 min)
- Departures in a timetable week
- 71
- Operators
- DB Fernverkehr AG, FlixTrain, OBB (Austrian Federal Railways), DB Fernverkehr (Codesharing) and 2 more
- Stations
- Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof → Erfurt, Hauptbahnhof
- Straight-line distance
- 289 km
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What this is based on
Arrive inErfurt →- From the operator's published timetable, valid to 12 Dec 2026. The departure count is for one week of that timetable (the week it was read, early October 2026) and counts every direct departure from Karlsruhe to Erfurt; it is not a daily figure.
- The stations shown are the pair used by the most departures; other stations in either place may also be served.
- Source: Open timetable data (GTFS): DB Fernverkehr (long-distance rail); DE Regionalverkehr (regional rail); Switzerland opentransportdata.swiss (SBB + whole PT, via geOps mirror). How Head Your Way works.
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