With SNCB International, you can book your tickets for the ICE high speed trains (Inter City Express) at the lowest fares. Deutsche Bahn's ICE trains offer direct services from Belgium or the Netherlands to Cologne and Frankfurt, where you benefit from numerous onward connections everywhere in Germany (Berlin, Hamburg, Hannover, Stuttgart, Munich etc...) and beyond, e.g. to Austria and Switzerland.
Due to planned engineering works on the German rail network, the latest ICE train of the day in both directions between Brussels and Cologne will be cancelled on several days from June to October 2025.
This concerns:
These trains will not operate between Brussels and Cologne on the following days:
Due to planned engineering works on the Belgian rail network, ICE trains connecting Brussels to Cologne and Frankfurt will be diverted from their usual itinerary from Saturday 2 August to Sunday 17 August 2025.
This will result in longer journey times. As a consequence, most ICE trains from Brussels to Germany will terminate in Cologne and ICE trains from Germany to Brussels will depart from Cologne.
Between Cologne and Frankfurt, passengers can use other trains operated by Deutsche Bahn.