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Intercity services are operated by the DB Fernverkehr division of Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s national railway. The Intercity name was introduced in Germany in 1971, replacing the F-Zug category, and was the top category of train in Germany until the introduction of the high-speed ICE services in the early 1990s. With the proliferation of ICE ...
Frequency of trains and allowed max speed on the German Intercity-Express (ICE) network (2022) This list of Intercity-Express lines in Germany includes all Intercity-Express lines in Germany. [1] The latest changes to the Intercity Express network took place at the timetable change on 10 December 2023. The network currently has 35 scheduled lines.
The numbering of German timetabled routes (Kursbuchstrecken or KBS) was changed twice by the Deutsche Bundesbahn after the Second World War, in 1950 and 1970. In the Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany) the numbering system was completely changed in 1968.
The bulk of the railway network in Germany belongs to DB Netz, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG – this situation is a relic from the time when the Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Reichsbahn had a monopoly. The stations and halts on the DB Netz network are run by DB Station&Service. Not included in this list are museum railways and transport ...
BERLIN (Reuters) -German commuters face train cancellations across the country from Wednesday, as a three-day nationwide rail strike adds to travel chaos in Europe's largest economy, where ongoing ...
Intercity Express (commonly known as ICE (German pronunciation: [iːtseːˈʔeː] ⓘ) and running under this category) is a high-speed rail system in Germany. It also serves destinations in Austria, France, Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands as part of cross-border services. It is the flagship of the German state railway, Deutsche Bahn ...
The main national railway operator, state-owned Deutsche Bahn, expected to run about 20% of its normal long-distance service. ... German railway runs much-reduced schedule as drivers' union stages ...
The code is set up as follows: X YYYY Z; where X denotes the Bundesbahndirektion (BD) in West Germany or Reichsbahndirektion (Rbd) in East Germany and prior to 1949, and YYYY is the code of the station itself, which can be up to four letters.