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