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Korrespondenz

English translation: bilateral or two-way connection

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German term or phrase:	Korrespondenz (Eisenbahn)
English translation:	bilateral or two-way connection
Entered by:	Alison Riddell

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08:37 Sep 26, 2002

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German term or phrase: Korrespondenz

"Der Abschnitt Köln - Mannheim wurde oben betrachtet. Frankfurt - Mannheim ist mit 35 Min. unverträglich mit T = 60. Jedoch wird Frankfurt Hbf seit Jahren erfolgreich als 15/45-Teilknoten betrieben. D.h. im einzelnen: Zur Taktzeit 15 besteht ein Teilknoten in Ost-Richtung mit Korrespondenzen Mannheim-Würzburg und Köln-Fulda. Dagegen bestehen zur Taktzeit 45: Richtungsanschlüsse in West-Richtung mit den umgekehrten Korrespondenzen. Seit dem Jahresfahrplan 1999/2000 wurde die letztgenannte Korrespondenz (Köln-Fulda) leider aufgegeben. Ziel sollte deren Wiederherstellung sein"

Help greatly appreciated!

Alison Riddell KudoZ activity Questions: 411 (2 open) (2 without valid answers) Answers: 2180
Local time: 10:44

bilateral or two-way connection

Explanation:
In contrast to the word "Anschluss", "Korrespondenz" means that two trains
arrive at a station at rougly the same time and leave the station at a time
which enables passengers to change train A to train B as well as from train
B to train A. In other words, it is a bilateral or two way connection. An
"Anschluss" requires that passengers from train A catch train B, but not
vice versa.

Selected response from:

Terry Gilman
Local time: 10:44

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Now that makes sense.... Thanks Terry!
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Summary of answers provided

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connection

Mats Wiman

bilateral or two-way connection

Terry Gilman

connecting trains

kostan

interchange

Rowan Morrell

Answers

23 mins confidence:

interchange

Explanation:
This is a guess, I will admit. All I can find for "Korrespondenz" is "correspondence" (I imagine that's been your problem too). So what I did was look up "correspondence" in my Roget's Thesaurus. One of the meanings of "correspondence" is "correlation". Looking under "correlation", I discovered "interchange" - a common rail expression. That may very well work in your context. It's the best I can do. I hope it's been of some help.

Roget's Thesaurus of Synonyms and Antonyms, ISBN No. 0905694368

Rowan Morrell
Local time: 20:44
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English

26 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

connection

Explanation:
none

13 years in Germany

Mats Wiman
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