Is there any way to travel from Germany to Austria by train?

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If you wish to use the Deutsche Bahn to cross the border to Austria, you should check the Deutsche Bahn site for known train interruptions

  • no trains or busses to Tirol (western Austria)
  • at present (2020-03-19) none for other areas inside Austria as final destination

Assume that this may change at any time.

Check eligibility to enter Austria

  • at the moment you must supply an acceptable reason to enter

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The official website of Deutsche Bahn lists the current interruptions due to corona (only in german, trying to change the language to english took me back to the main page):

https://www.bahn.de/p/view/service/aktuell/index.shtml

According to this site, several trains between Germany and Austria have been cancelled, including the NightJet, but I assume that other trains are still running. Since the site doesn't mention ICE trains between Germany and Austria, I assume they are still running.

In case the trains stop running before you make it to Austria: If you are eligible to enter Austria, nothing should stop you from entering by taxi (or, taking a taxi to the german side of the border, crossing the border by foot, ordering another taxi to pick you up at the austrian side of the border) - but depending on how close to the border you can get by train this can be quite expensive.

I wouldn't count on buses or coaches: They have never been quite as popular as trains, and the one company that offered (more or less) regular coach services - Flixbus - stopped operations tonight due to corona.

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