#5140· Baureihe 411
ICE T
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Siemens Mobility· from 1999· high-speed German tilting train
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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. ICE-T bei Steinbach am Wald: Tors· Public domain
- 2. ICE-T Neigung: Sebastian Terfloth· CC BY-SA 2.5
- 3. DBAG Class 411: Falk2· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. DBAG Class 415: Rob Dammers· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The ICE T or ICE-T, consisting of DB Classes 411 and 415, are German tilting electric multiple unit high-speed trains in service with DB Fernverkehr serving routes within Germany and to Austria.
who runs it
base stats
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 27 years ago, in 1999.
- Top speed is 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 10 minutes.
- Seats 372: 7 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 27 years.
high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.
spec sheet
- built
- 1999
- in service from
- 1999
- status
- in service
- number built
- 60
- kind
- Electric multiple-unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Siemens Mobility, Alstom, Siemens, ALSTOM Transportation Germany, Fiat Ferroviaria
- operators
- Deutsche Bahn, Austrian Federal Railways
- top speed
- 230 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- overhead line
- formation
- 7 cars (Class 411), 5 cars (Class 415)
- capacity
- 372 passengers
- Dutch name
- Baureihe 411
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q696668, Wikipedia: ICE T (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.