GERMAN Rail (DB) has confirmed to IRJ that it plans to place an order for additional class 412 ICE 4 high-speed trains using options available in the original 2011 contract, although the exact number of trains has yet to be finalised.
GERMAN Rail (DB) has reportedly shelved its planned high-speed service between London, Cologne and Frankfurt, citing changes in the economic environment for its cancellation of the proposed service.
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.