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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 an incident on the German rail network on 22 November, the rail traffic between Aachen and Cologne will be disrupted until Monday 23 December.
Until 23 December, most ICE trains on the Brussels-Cologne-Frankfurt connection will only operate between Brussels-Midi and Aachen Hbf. Between Aachen and Cologne, passengers can use Deutsche Bahn's regional RE1 and RE9 services, resulting in longer journey times.
Only the last two ICE trains of the day will operate all the way between Brussels and Frankfurt (ICE 317 and 19 from Brussels to Frankfurt and ICE 12 and 10 from Frankfurt to Brussels). However, they are being diverted via Rheydt, taking 90 to 100 minutes of extra journey time.
