High-speed route
ICE
Frankfurt → Stuttgart · Germany
- Distance
- 184 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 138 km/h
- Top speed
- 250 km/h
- Operator
- Deutsche Bahn
- Train
- ICE 3
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1991
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Down the Rhine-Neckar to Mannheim and up into the Swabian capital: a hard-worked spine of the south-west ICE network.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3431945 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of ICE 571
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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