Classic route
ICE Frankfurt–Dresden
Frankfurt → Dresden · Germany
- Distance
- 492 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 h 24 min
- Average speed
- 112 km/h
- Top speed
- 230 km/h
- Operator
- DB Fernverkehr
- Train
- DB ICE T
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 2015
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Saxony ICE: Fulda’s wooded hills, Luther’s Eisenach and Erfurt, the 2015 high-speed line into Leipzig, then the Elbe plain to Dresden.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 15 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of ICE 1555
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