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Munich, Salzburg and Klagenfurt: ICE 77 (Münster and Berlin) ICE 78: Amsterdam, Cologne and Frankfurt: ICE 79: Brussels, Cologne and Frankfurt: ICE/TGV 82 (Paris, Mannheim and Frankfurt) ICE/TGV 83: Paris, Strasbourg and Stuttgart: ICE/TGV 84: Frankfurt, Strasbourg and Marseille: ECE 85: Frankfurt, Basel and Milan: ECE 88: Munich and Zurich ...
Since June 2007, ICEs service Paris from Frankfurt and Saarbrücken via the LGV Est. Unlike the Shinkansen in Japan, Germany has experienced a fatal accident on a high-speed service. In the Eschede train disaster of 1998, a first generation ICE experienced catastrophic wheel failure while travelling at 200 km/h (124 mph) near Eschede ...
The Rhine-Main S-Bahn system is an integrated rapid transit and commuter train system for the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region, which includes the cities Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Offenbach am Main, Hanau and Darmstadt.
Rapid transit in Germany consists of four U-Bahn systems and 14 S-Bahn systems. The U-Bahn, commonly understood to stand for Untergrundbahn ('underground railway'), are conventional rapid transit systems that run mostly underground, while the S-Bahn or Stadtschnellbahn ('city rapid railway') are commuter rail services, that may run underground in the city center and have metro-like ...
In 1998, a Berlin-Frankfurt service was introduced and a service between Cologne and Stuttgart ran between December 2005 and October 2006. Until December 2006, a morning Sprinter service ran between Frankfurt and Munich (with an intermediate stop at Mannheim), taking 3:25 hours for the journey. This has been since replaced by a normal ICE ...
Full train in Hamburg during the 9-Euro-Ticket campaign, August 10, 2022 In June, July and August 2022, there was a special ticket called the 9-Euro-Ticket , which was a ticket with which passengers could travel for €9 per month on local and regional transport throughout Germany.
The Intercity logo, in use from 1971 to 1991 The original Intercity network A classic Intercity train at Emmerich in 1973, hauled by a Class 103. The idea for Intercity services on the Deutsche Bundesbahn network was first proposed in 1967, inspired by the success of British Rail's InterCity brand.
On 28 May 1972, the Munich S-Bahn network was finally put into service with 360 kilometres (220 mi) of tracks and 101 trains of the ET 420 series. Town names in the nearby Munich such as Dachau, Tutzing, Erding and Pasing came into the picture. It was the first time a S-Bahn network that size was put into service on a single date.