Stop in Leipzig. Beautiful little train station with a few amenities. It's in a great location…read moreright near the central area in order to grab a bite and/or drink.

I traveled around Germany by rail and this station was the most impressive one…read more Arriving from Berlin, when I first stepped off of the train, I thought I arrived back 100 years ago. Very East German style, although they were destroyed during the WWII, they restored it so nicely, they kept the old charm. I was told this is the largest railway station in the world by square meters but they were designed well, it is easy to make it connection yet going downstairs, you get to enjoy good food and shopping (it's like a huge shopping mall). This station was perhaps cleanest hauptbanhof I've visited and felt very safe there. Buying tickets and getting information on kiosk was easy to navigate. They also have information center at the ground level if you prefer to speak in person. They also have signs throughout to tell you if trains are on time. Most delays I saw was 10 mins.

It is a huge Bahnhof. You might get lost when you just arrived…read more Ernst August statue standing plaza is the front which going to the city, the other end goes differently. Strassenbahns and trains all coming here, so it gets confusing to get a right train. I arrived here with the Strassenbahn and change to the local trains to go to the Steinhuder Meer. I also had to take ICE to Karlsruhe from here. That was not super easy, but I made it. So many shops and eating places, so fun to spend time also.

This place charges you 1 Euro to use the bathroom, what a rip off!…read more If you are not local then you are gonna have a hard trouble figuring out the route and the wagon assignment for the trains. The instructions do not provide too much details and there are too much that you need to know before you end up waking up in another country. I wish they could make instructions a bit easier to understand... For some reason locals already know by heart how the system works, the hours, the A, B, C, D, E sections, and others. I couldn't find any of those information in the available billboards that they have. Wish they could provide those info with more details and more available to the public...

Me and a few work colleagues took the train from Berlin directly down to Halle. The last time I…read moretook an Eastern German train was when the Berlin Wall was up. I departed at Halle impressed on how well the German Government has improved the transportation infrastructure post reunification. Hall Hauptbanhof was relatively modest, uninspiring, but functional. There's nothing to write home about (except of course this review), other than this Station does the job. It also helps that a person with a van, that was hired by our Company was there to meet all of us and take us on to Merseburg.