InterCityExpress

For a long time, Germany inter city train connection was mainly operated by InterCity train. When Japan introduced Shinkansen and France produced TGV, some industrial companies were also planning to build new faster train for Germany. The proposal was approved with one condition… it should able to use old railways so that Germany didn’t have to put a lot of money to build new railway (which is the case for Shinkansen and TGV).

This approach is proofed to be very effective. Germany had already famous for its dense railways and using the approach, in a short time, the train became the most popular rapid mass transport between cities in Germany. In the same time, more and more better railways are build throughout Germany to achieve the velocity’s limit of train. Currently, its top speed can only be achieved on the line between Frankfurt-Cologne and Nuremberg-Munich, where it can run until 300 km/h.

Over the time, several types of the train has been developed. InterCityExpress is picked as the name and the model is named as ICE 1, ICE 2, and ICE 3. Several variations of the models are also developed afterward.

Most of the train has signal amplifier for mobile phone so people can still use their phone despite of the speed of the train. In the modern model, every two seats in ICE has access to the electrical power so its very convenient for businessmen or anybody that want to use laptop or charge battery. And recently, several ICEs are also equipped with WLAN courtesy of T-Mobile.

This train is also considered as very attractive for many train fans. This can be concluded from many fan pages about the train over the internet. Every information about the train can also be read in the fan pages. Two of the most interesting sites are http://www.ice-fanpage.de/ and http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/electric/emu/ICE/pix.html.

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