Lake Constance Belt Railway

Lake Constance Belt Railway is the name used for several contiguous railway lines, either around the entire Upper Lake of Lake Constance or only along its northern shore. It was coined around 1900, when the trinational railway ring around the lake was completed, but today the term is only used for the line from Radolfzell to Lindau in southern Germany.

Railway lines

In its original meaning, the belt railway consists of the following sections in southern Germany, northwestern Austria and northeastern Switzerland:

–, part of the High Rhine Railway line
Radolfzell–Stahringen, part of the Radolfzell–Mengen railway line
Stahringen–Friedrichshafen railway line between Stahringen and
Friedrichshafen–Lindau railway line between Friedrichshafen Stadt and the junction near
Lindau-Aeschach junction–, part of the Buchloe–Lindau railway line
Lindau-Insel–Wolfurt-Lauterach Nord, part of the Lindau–Bludenz railway line. This line crosses the Germany–Austria border
St. Margrethen–Lauterach line between the Lauterach Nord junction and . This line crosses the Austria–Switzerland border
St. Margrethen–, part of the Chur–Rorschach railway lline
Rorschach–Konstanz, part of the Lake Line, which crosses the Switzerland–Germany border

The lines mostly run parallel to the lake shore. Only the Konstanz–, – and – sections run through the hinterland.

The lines are operated by S-Bahn services of Bodensee S-Bahn, which includes lines of Vorarlberg S-Bahn and St. Gallen S-Bahn and several regional train services in southern Germany.