Editing Jena (section)

==== By rail ====
[[File:13-05-03-jena-by-RalfR-93.jpg|thumb|Paradies station]]
Jena has no central railway station with connection to all the lines at one point. What is relatively common in many countries is quite unusual for a German city and caused on the one hand by the city's difficult topography and on the other hand by the history, because the two main lines were built by two different private companies. The connection in north–south direction is the [[Saal Railway]] with [[Intercity-Express|ICE]] trains running from [[Berlin]] in the north to [[Munich]] in the south once a day stopping at [[Jena Paradies station|Paradies station]] and local trains to [[Naumburg (Saale)|Naumburg]] and [[Saalfeld]] stopping at [[Jena-Zwätzen station|Zwätzen]], [[Jena Saale station|Saalbahnhof]], Paradies and [[Jena-Göschwitz station|Göschwitz]]. The connection in west–east direction is the [[Weimar–Gera railway]] with regional express trains to [[Göttingen]] (via [[Erfurt]] and [[Weimar]]) and [[Zwickau]], [[Glauchau]], [[Altenburg]] or [[Greiz]] (via [[Gera]]) and local trains between Weimar, Jena and Gera. The express trains stop at [[Jena West station|West station]] near the city centre and Göschwitz, the local trains furthermore at [[Neue Schenke]]. The junction between both lines is the [[Jena-Göschwitz station|Göschwitz station]], approx. {{convert|5|km|0|abbr=on}} south of the city centre.

When the [[Nuremberg–Erfurt high-speed railway]] opened in 2017, the city lost its connection to the long-distance train network. As compensation, there are new regional express train services to [[Halle (Saale)|Halle]] and [[Leipzig]] in the north, and to [[Nuremberg]] in the south.