Can't stand not traveling, so decided since planning is half the fun anyway, I'm going to plan some trips to keep myself occupied. One that I'm working on would take us by train from Prague to Karlovy Vary. I'm stymied, however, with the Bahn.de website. For the life of me I cannot find where on the site they decipher their abbreviations for types of carriers. I do note that they actually spell out BUS and I know from experience what a couple of abbreviations are but I can't find any handy dandy key to the abbreviations so I can be assured that I'm actually looking at traveling by train rather than bus or some other conveyance. Can an expert step forward and point me to the right place to look or give me some personal guidance and assurance that anything other than BUS just means some form of train which only makes a difference if I have a pass or somesuch. (Actually what I'm hoping is the case) Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

How embarrassing. I no more than pushed the send button when I think I found the answer. It's the "train fleet" button. If there's more to it than that, please help me. Otherwise, I'll just slink away now. Sorry to have troubled you.

I have heard that the bus is considerably faster than the train between Prague and Karlovy. Rome2rio should hopefully provide details of the bus company.

Glad you found the answer to your guestion!

I usually have a look at this excellent site for train questions:
https://www.seat61.com

I had a quick look at the details: when you expand each window it says something about the 'Produkt'; R is a 'Schnellzug' (fast train), BUS is obviously just a bus, EX is an Express-Zug (express train), and OS is a Regionalzug (regional train, slower local train). Not that I have looked but if you used bahn.com I guess some of these would be translated ...?

Lavandula

In my notes for my planned trip to the Czech Republic for this past September, which of course had to be cancelled, I have noted that the bus is better than the train for Prague to Karlovy Vary.