ICE 4

what is it?

ICE 4 is a brand name for long-distance Intercity-Express high-speed trains being procured for Deutsche Bahn. Procurement started around 2008 for replacements for locomotive-hauled InterCity and EuroCity train services, and was later expanded to include replacements for ICE 1 and ICE 2 high-speed trainsets. In 2011 Siemens Mobility was awarded the contract for 130 seven-car intercity train replacements, and 90 ten-car ICE train replacements, plus further options – the contract for the ten-car sets was modified in 2013 to expand the trainset length to twelve vehicles.

who runs it

DB FernverkehrDeutsche Bahn

base stats

• speed 265 km/htop speed
• weight 470 tin working order
• seats 444passengers
• built 137made in total

Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.

fun facts

• 🎂First built 9 years ago, in 2017.
• 🏎️Top speed is 2.0× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• ⏱️At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 9 minutes.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 78 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏202 m long: about 45 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🧍Seats 444: 9 full city buses (~50 seats each).

high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.

spec sheet

built

2017

in service from

2017

number built

137

kind

high-speed train

traction

electric

origin

🇩🇪 Germany

builders

Siemens Mobility, ALSTOM Transportation Germany, Alstom

operators

DB Fernverkehr, Deutsche Bahn

top speed

265 km/h

power

—

formation

K1n/K1s: 7 cars (3M4T), K3s: 12 cars (6M6T), K4s: 13 cars (7M6T)

length

202 m

weight

470 t

capacity

444 passengers

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.