Passenger Service
The DR was centrally directed according to socialist principles within the context of a centrally-planned command economy. By 1989, 17.2% of the passenger transport volume in the GDR was handled by the DR - three times the market share of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) in West Germany. Fares were fairly cheap, but trains tended to be overcrowded and slow, owing in part to the poor condition of most railway lines in the GDR. The DR did offer a limited number of express trains such as the "Neptun" (Berlin - Copenhagen), "Vindobona" (Berlin - Vienna), "Karlex" (Berlin - Carlsbad) and "Balt-Orient-Express" (Berlin - Bucharest).
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