High-speed route
ICE
Berlin → Basel · Germany · Switzerland
ICE in pictures
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- Distance
- 843 km
- Fastest time
- 7 h 7 min
- Average speed
- 118 km/h
- Top speed
- 280 km/h
- Operator
- DB Fernverkehr
- Train
- ICE 1 · Class 401
- Countries
- Germany, Switzerland
- In service since
- 1991
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Crosses Germany from end to end, Berlin to the Swiss border, finishing down the Upper Rhine past Freiburg to Basel in about seven hours.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1085700 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 30 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 8 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.2 km from the shape of ICE 371
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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