High-speed route
ICE Hamburg–Munich
Hamburg → Munich · Germany
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Germany’s busiest long-distance axis, the length of the country from the Elbe to the Isar via Hanover, the Fulda gap and Nuremberg.
Stations
- 0 kmHamburg Dammtor / Universität
- 178 kmHannover Hauptbahnhof
- 277 kmGöttingen
- 322 kmKassel-Wilhelmshöhe
- 412 kmFulda
- 505 kmWürzburg Hauptbahnhof
- 606 kmNürnberg Hauptbahnhof
- 776 kmMunich Central Station
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1788865 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 33 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 10 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of ICE 583
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the ICE?
The ICE runs 780 km from Hamburg to Munich.
How long does the ICE take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 5 h 45 min for the 780 km. That is an average of 136 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 265 km/h.
Who runs the ICE?
Deutsche Bahn, with ICE 4.
How old is the ICE?
The line has been in service since 1991. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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