Login
My Tickets
Did you book your train tickets at SNCB International, either online, through our app or via our contact centre? With MyTrain, you can find all your booking details, such as departure times or seat numbers, very easily.
It’s so easy to travel from Brussels to Berlin by train. On your journey between these two city centres you just need to change trains once, at the main station in Cologne (Köln Hbf), so you don’t even need to change stations.
This long journey of almost 800 km winding through Europe takes less than 7 hours on high-speed trains, with an arrival right in the heart of the German city as an added bonus.
The first leg of your journey will take you from Brussels (Midi/Zuid) station to the central station in Cologne (Köln Hbf). This service runs several times a day with high-speed Eurostar or ICE trains, and takes just 1 hour 51 minutes.
Once you arrive at Köln Hbf (Cologne) station, change trains to get to Berlin. All you need to do is change platforms to catch a high-speed ICE train straight to the German capital.
The 17 daily ICE trains will take you directly into the centre of Berlin in around 4 hours 20 minutes. We recommend getting off at the central station (Berlin Hauptbahnhof), which is within easy reach of all the most popular tourist destinations in Berlin. Berlin Hbf also offers excellent connections to other German cities (Leipzig or Dresden, for example), and to neighbouring countries such as Poland.
Due to a national strike, the rail service on the Belgian rail network will be limited from Sunday 23 November (10 pm - CET) to Wednesday 26 November 2025 included.
An alternative train service will be drawn up based on available train staff. All details on this alternative train service will be available 24h in advance on www.belgiantrain.be.
Please take this alternative train service into account if you need to take a domestic connection in Belgium before or after an international train journey, or if you need to take our regional trains just across the border (Roosendaal, Maastricht, Aachen, Luxembourg, Lille or Maubeuge).
For the time being, we still don't know the possible impact of this strike on international trains (EuroCity, Eurocity Direct, TGV INOUI, Eurostar, OUIGO, ICE etc.). We advise to check this page regularly for further updates.
Due to engineering works near Cologne, the ICE trains connecting Brussels with Frankfurt will be diverted around Cologne from Friday 14 November to Sunday 23 November 2025.
As a consequence, they will not be serving Köln Hbf (central station) as usual, but will be calling at Köln-Ehrenfeld suburban station (North-West of the city centre) instead.
Please check the adapted schedules in our journey planner if you travel to/from Cologne or if you have to change trains in Cologne.
