The time of strolling is over: after the renovation work has been completed, the train from Berlin to Hamburg is much faster again.
Berlin / Hamburg (dpa) – After around three months of renovation work, the trains on the high-speed route between Berlin and Hamburg have been on the road again since Sunday without diversions and interruptions.
You will travel on the long-distance train fast connection between the two largest German cities with the timetable change on Sunday again at up to 230 kilometers per hour, as a spokesman for Deutsche Bahn said on Sunday. As before, the journey time is now less than two hours.
According to Deutsche Bahn, around 60 trains run between Hamburg and Berlin every day. The route is usually one of the most heavily used connections in Germany with an average of around 17,000 passengers per day. During the construction work, the number of trains was reduced to around 50 per day, and the journey took significantly longer because of the diversions. The line between Berlin-Spandau and Büchen has been renovated for around 100 million euros since September.
Nationwide, there were no problems with the changeover to the new railway timetable. “The significant expansion of the offer for passengers with around 50,000 additional seats in long-distance traffic every day worked smoothly,” said the rail spokesman.
Among other things, additional ICE trains with fewer stops, the so-called sprinters, run on eight of the ten strongest domestic German flight routes. ICE trains between Berlin and Cologne run three times a day without stopping in less than four hours, up to half an hour faster than before. It should go faster on the routes Düsseldorf-Cologne-Munich, Hamburg-Frankfurt Airport and Berlin-Munich.