High-speed route
ICE
Stuttgart → Munich · Germany
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- Distance
- 241 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 13 min
- Average speed
- 109 km/h
- Top speed
- 250 km/h
- Operator
- DB Fernverkehr
- Train
- ICE 3 Velaro D
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 2022
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Opened in December 2022, the Wendlingen–Ulm line tunnels under the Swabian Jura and cut the Stuttgart–Ulm leg to just 42 minutes.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1311834 — 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 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of ICE 991
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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