Classic route
IC Hamburg–Köln
Hamburg → Cologne · Germany
- Distance
- 425 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 45 min
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- DB Fernverkehr
- Train
- DB IC · ICE
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1874
Page last updated 2026-07-19 · figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Germany’s busiest conventional corridor: ports to Ruhr through Bremen, Münster and five more big cities — twice an hour, no high-speed line in sight.
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