TWO million passengers have used German Rail’s (DB) Berlin - Munich high-speed line within six months of the opening of the final section of the line, more than double the amount traveling on the old line during the same period last year.
GERMAN Rail (DB) recorded a 37% increase in ridership on its ICE service linking Frankfurt, Cologne and Brussels in 2017, while traffic on the Frankfurt - Cologne - Amsterdam corridor reached a new high.
GERMAN Rail (DB) inaugurated a new €220m carbon-neutral maintenance depot for ICE high-speed trains at Nippes northwest of Cologne on February 23.
THE first five 250km/h ICE4 series-production trains which Siemens is supplying to German Rail (DB) entered regular passenger service on December 10 on the Hamburg - Munich and Hamburg - Frankfurt - Stuttgart main lines.
DUTCH infrastructure manager Prorail has prepared the Betuweroute freight line between the port of Rotterdam and the Dutch-German border near Emmerich as a diversionary route for Amsterdam - Frankfurt ICE services.
DB Long Distance has announced that it is investing €210m to refurbish its fleet of 66 ICE3 high-speed trains, comprising 50 class 403 15kV ac and 16 class 406 multi-system sets.
GERMAN Rail (DB) has told IRJ it has no plans to launch ICE services from Frankfurt to London in 2020, contrary to reports in the British media, but says it still sees potential for the route in the medium-term.
GERMAN Rail’s (DB) next generation high-speed train the ICE 4 was publically unveiled at Berlin Main Station on September 14 by Germany’s federal minister for transport and digital infrastructure Mr Alexander Dobrindt and DB CEO Dr Rüdiger Grube.
JUNE 2 marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of ICE high-speed rail services and German Rail (DB) celebrated this milestone in German rail history with a display of the four generations of ICE train at Berlin-Grunewald train depot.
GERMAN Rail (DB) has awarded Icomera, Sweden, a contract to rollout onboard Wi-Fi on its fleet of 260 ICE trains currently in service and ICE 4 trains, which are gradually being introduced over the next few years.
