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  • justJanne
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    8 months ago

    The ICE’s max speed depends on model and variies from 250km/h to 300km/h. These speeds can be reached on:

    • Hannover-Würzburg (280km/h)
    • Mannheim-Stuttgart (280km/h)
    • Oebisfelde-Berlin (250km/h)
    • Siegburg-Frankfurt (300km/h)
    • Köln-Düren (250km/h)
    • Rastatt-Offenburg & Schliengen-Haltingen (250km/h)
    • Nürnberg-Ingolstadt (300km/h)
    • Ebensfeld-Leipzig/Halle (300km/h)
    • Wendlingen-Ulm (250km/h)

    There are more of these tracks currently under construction:

    • Stuttgart-Wendlingen (250km/h)
    • Bashaide-Rastatt (250km/h)

    And many more are currently in the planning stage:

    • Hamm-Bielefeld (300km/h)
    • Oebisfelde-Berlin (300km/h)
    • Ulm-Augsburg (300km/h)
    • Gelnhausen-Fulda (250km/h)
    • Frankfurt-Mannhein (300km/h)
    • Bielefeld-Hannover (300km/h)
    • Nürnberg-Würzburg (300km/h)