Germany’s EXPERIMENTAL high-speed train! The story of the ICE-T

In Norway, where I live, they introduced tilting trains in 1999, which fit for the curly lines in southern Norway. Unfortunately many reported getting dizzy by the tilting mechanism, so it was therefore turned off, and is still to this day.

weisbaden?????

The driving experience is sickening. you realy get sick from the tilting

No lets talk about the ICE-TD......

In der Schweiz haben wir den "Pendolino" in diesem bin ich nach einer kurzen Fahrt schon seekrank. Wie ist der Komfort im ICE-T?

As a kid in the 1980's I used to marvel at the APT that sat in the sheds close to Glasgow's motorway - such a shame the UK then sold on the tech rather than invest and develop further. The tech today, well, that's now sold back to us and used on the routes intended for the APT.

The train I usually take isn't high speed but also tilts and I often get nauseous when riding, especially when I'm standing- then it's unavoidable

They made the ICE-T! XD (Iced tea)

Weisbaden has me rolling on the floor

ICE T and its rare diesel-powered ICE TD (often used by Danish Railway) weren't first trains in Germany to use the tilting technology. This goes to the DB Class 610 (introduced in 1992) and DB Class 611 (introduced in 1996). You can still ride DB Class 610/611 trains in southeastern Bavaria, serving Rosenheim as hub.

Deutsche Bahn wanted to build a brand-new through station a bit south of the current Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof (a project called Frankfurt 21). The new station would save about 30 minutes when travelling between Cologne and Munich and to reduce the backlog (common problem at Frankfurt Hbf and many terminus stations, including Munich). The mayor screamed, "Absolutely NO!" The passengers who travelled through Frankfurt to other destinations screamed, "Absolutely YES!" The project was abandoned as it would be too expensive to move everything from the current site to the new site, including the trams, S-Bahn, and U-Bahn. Stuttgart got lucky with the perfect location for the expensive conversion from the terminus to through station.

within 2 minutes of being at frankfurt hbf i got asked for money, very rich and poor place at the same time

So the actual topic was covered in 20 seconds of a 12minutes video? 😂

Showing all the people unblurred is not cool

I love the design of the ICE trains. Exteriour and interior.

btw it's Wiesbaden, not Weisbaden ^^

I can't say I consider an average speed of 120 km/h to be "high speed".

Way back at the beginning of the 90's the first gen ICE did 250 km/h. After more than 30 years the 4th or 5th gen ICE can't even make that any more. Nice bit of developement, DB, bravo.

Finally, as an American from the American South, I can get behind some iced tea!

So much better liveries than the hotch potch of UK privatised trains.

Im a train driver from Nurenberg, Germany. The tilting technology is a good thing (when it works), which it at least in 50% of all 411/415(ICE-T) trains it dosn't. As well the driver needs to have education of the "GNT" (Geschwindigkeitsüberwachung für NeiTech-Züge) which translates to Speed ​​monitoring for tilting trains. It only needs one day of instruction and a test to get it, how ever at DB Fernverkehr from all of germany only drivers located in Nurenberg still get it. Every timetable for the trains in whole germany works fine, even without tilting. So you dont must have it it, but it helps do reduce delay.

For your particular trip, anyway its just on a short section technically available, but in the most cases it wont be a driver from nurenberg or/and its not working.

We (nuremberg drivers) still get it, because for the Frankfurt - Nuremberg - Passau section its really helpful, its available on 80% of the whole journey. So if there is not another train blocking you upfront, you can reduce a delay from up to 30 minutes down to 0. In extrem cases (close before Passau) you can drive 155km/h instead of 110km/h. For us drivers its really fun, for the guests and cabin crew sometimes not so much.

Thanks for reading and sorry for my english.

The City you mean is Wiesbaden not Weisbaden.

every thing the Ice3series and further is in co-operation whit JNR since pantograph and wheels comes from them and titling whas inveted by italy but never got it to wrok until gemrany managed it to make it work

Bad Hersfeld mentioned!

ICE-T Trains are known for the Broken Toilets. Trust me i work for this company

look how they massacred my german town names

Note the laptop users booked more premium seats. Simple extra feature to get more expensive bookings

How are Germans not going nuts with late trains. Its like clocks being late in Switzerland

Excuse me, Weis what now? Its WIESbaden 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Why didn’t they make more?

I don't care how much energy you say i'm going to "save". I ain't getting on no train in germany. I ain't falling for that one again. That's how it started the last time "oh lets save the energy by getting on the train. Let's room for more people to get onto the train so that we can save more of the energy."

This was excellent, Simon. Everything fully and clearly explained. And over here in North America, trains like that are almost non-existent.

l am a bit confused. Does not hsr start at 250 kph?

Good video, I alsk really wanna go on the ICE T some time.

By the way, your connection actually may have waited (intentional delay) so all passengers from your train could take it.

Treni bellissimi!!! Like

As an Austrian when I'm visiting my German friends i often take the train from Vienna, Passau to Frankfurt am Main.
This route is also often served by ICE-T which is one of my favourite trains for long travels and the train travels even furhter through the Rhine valleys Mainz, Koblenz, Bonn, Cologne and so on until it terminates in Dortmund. The Route is not the fastest one could take but it is certanly a very beautiful route.

SBB moved away from tilting tech. One of the reasons given was: if a tilting train malfunctions you can't use non tilting reserve stock and keep it on schedule.
and unlike germany, the swiss rail network is insanely frequented. Most ICE now turn around in Basel, as they're simply to delayed.
improving tracks may take longer and is more expensive but it's more a robust improvement as well.

Great train. Used it many years to travel to my grandparents while watchign TV in it. Still has the biggest leg space of all ICE trains. I love it

E6 series says hi...

For your safety! BLUR FACES in Germany. we have hard restrictions of filming other people. It is called DSGVO.

Nice video. But: it's Wiesbaden, not Weisbaden.

What exactly is "experimental" about this train?

Considering the small trip the ICE T had before arriving in Frankfurt (Edit: apparently it started in Frankfurt. So my assumption could actually be true) it could be that it didnt actually have a delay but was waiting for you and other passengers to get their connection

Germany has such wonderful trains

Ice on Ice

I mean, if you have a direct train they are really nice. But you have to take a bit more margin in transfers in germamy, and want to limit the number of transfers. (altough not as much as you'd need far more time for a transfer in paris, due to having to switch stations)

Do you miss the ICE TD ?

Yes, the ICE is a very comfortable train, but it looks that nowadays they never run on time. Great video!

Ice tea? 😂

The great thing about delayed trains in germany is that sometimes they are sync delayed 😄I loved that you pointed that out

Has anyone been on a ICE-T where the glass was not frosted?