Passenger rail terminology#Regional rail and Commuter rail

A local train (N, earlier passenger, abbreviated P) was a train type of railway passenger services of the German Federal Railroad. These trains had predominantly short-term way and stopped at every en-route station. The German railway they now called regional train.

Often called these traits in slang like slow trains. This name originated because of the relatively low travel speed. Usually, they sailed in rural areas ( today often disused ) In addition to tracks on which could not be driven faster. From the rural areas comes the popular Zugbeschreibung " stops at every milk jug ". Frequent holding, the low acceleration of the strung with steam locomotives trains, longer stays at the stations (also for loading and unloading of baggage and express ) made ​​for long travel times from today's perspective. The slowest train category was about the freight train with passenger transport.

Typical diesel vehicles for local trains were rail buses that have been replaced by other DMUs.

• Train type ( Germany )
• Rail passenger transport
• German Federal Railroad