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Germany has high speed trains for a long time (eg. the 200km of Frankfurt-Cologne: 55 minutes, topping out at 270km/h or so outside the city centers) It's just
by pgeorgi 8y ago
Germany has high speed trains for a long time (eg. the 200km of Frankfurt-Cologne: 55 minutes, topping out at 270km/h or so outside the city centers)
It's just this route which had some geography-induced engineering challenges that was finally upgraded to be able to service at the trains' maximum speed.
- mpweiher 8y agoSmall correction: the Cologne Frankfurt line tops out at 300km/h, unless they reduced speed recently. What's fun is that the train tracks go right next to a bit of Autobahn for a while. Despite the fact that it's a section without speed limit, it still looks like a long stretch of parking lot when the train goes by :-)