High-speed route
ICE
Hamburg → Frankfurt · Germany
- Distance
- 490 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 34 min
- Top speed
- 280 km/h
- Operator
- DB Fernverkehr
- Train
- ICE 1 · Class 401
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1991
Runs the Hanover–Würzburg route, Germany’s first Neubaustrecke of 1991, boring through a chain of long tunnels beneath the hills of Hesse.
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