High-speed route
ICE
Hamburg → Munich · Germany
ICE in pictures
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- Distance
- 780 km
- Fastest time
- 5 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 136 km/h
- Top speed
- 265 km/h
- Operator
- Deutsche Bahn
- Train
- ICE 4
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1991
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Germany’s busiest long-distance axis, the length of the country from the Elbe to the Isar via Hanover, the Fulda gap and Nuremberg.
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
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Deutsche Bahn — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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