(Reminder: Please read this article after dining)
After the second World War, many things in Germany were waiting to be done, as we all known, at that time Germany was separated by American, British and French zone of Occupation. In the year of1946 the American and British zone of Occupation combined as “Bizone”, then in the year of 1948 except the Saarland the rest of French zone of Occupation combined with Bizone and became the “Trizone”, these actions have greatly improved themovement of people in the Federal Republic of Germany, then the Germany Federal Railway Company built the long-distance railway net (F-Zug) to connect with thebig cities, the picture below is the train Hanseat in the year of 1951.
The speed of the railway building in Federal Republic Germany was very fast, it can be seen from the history of thedevelopment from F-Zug that in 1951 the railway of Federal Republic Germanycould reached a lot of international cities like Coppenhagen, Rome, Amsterdamand Salzburg. In 1971 the F-Zug was replaced by the intercity(IC), the Startingfrequency for IC was two hours, and eight times a week, it was the first timefor the long-distance railway net.
The first IC train was the type of FederalRepublic Germany Railway Series 103. Like F-Zug, IC also connect the importanteconomic city in Germany, at that time, the trains for two different directionsdockes at the same platform so that the passengers can use the less time withmore convenient to transfer to another train, in 1976 the first train with bothfirst class and economy class ran, in the year of 1978 the speed has already increased to 200 kilometer pro hours.
The picture follows shows the operating route of Eurocity(EC) and Intercity(IC), the IC train only stop at the trainstations which are important, it means that the distances between two stationsof IC may have four to five stations which the line of normally regional trains have to stop.
The trains as follows are the train Intercity 2, which were produced by Bombardier Transportation Company and havebeen operating since december.2015. Now they are used only in North Germany.
The east terminal station of train Intercity 2 red line---Leipzig Station
And for not punctual… This is which Normanexperienced have, 50 Minutes delay…
From 1988 there is also a type of train called Interregio (IR), it’s similar to the IC stop at the train stations whichare important, but the distance which IR traveled were normally longer than IC,due to the bad economy operating results there are no IR trains now the normally layers of the IR trains are in blue. It also have a train called Interregio Express (IRE), it still be operated now and seems like a supplement of Intercity Express (ICE).
The most famous high speed train in Germany is “Intercity Express (ICE)”. It has been operating since 29.May.1991, but the Federal Ministry of Education and Research have already begun the research in 1970s. in 1895 the public experiments for ICE were conducted and also in the November that year ICE has reached the speed of 317 km/h between the Gütersloh and Hammin state North Rhine-Westphalia. It was the world record for the electric-powered trains. This year is also the 150 birthday of German railway.At that time the German Federal Railway Company have paid lots of attention to the clean of the ICE train’s surface.
(Click the link below this article”阅读原文” to watch the ICE experiment video)
But now the German Railway Company less andless pay attention to it’s image or they are not see the ICE as treasure, as along-history German National Company may be think of how to make profit. Inorder to save the cost of water and cost of salary always not let the train totake the shower, so that the ICE seems like just achieved a cross-country andfull with mud, some German have also written articles to complain about thatcompare the train 40 years before and the train for now and it’s certainly lotsof dirty. http://railomotive.com/2011/11/von-sauberen-zuegen-vor-40-jahren-und-schmutzigen-von-heute/
This was the ICE train which Norman would like to experience today, from Göttingen to Frankfurt am Main, and from theretake the ICE to Erfurt. Göttingen is the city of university, the famous writterin China Xianlin Ji and the Chinese marshal De Zhu have studied in Göttingen. Göttingenis also the important point for the connection between north Germany with south Germany and east Germany.
City, which knowledge made.
We should not only regard the disadvantages of German Railway Company, the thing which they did well was to built the restroom like this with heating, it’s comfortable to stay here in winter to read newspaper.
The train Norman took was ICE 71 with the train type ICE 1, name of the train is ”Gelsenkirchen”
the first class
economy class ( This picture downloaded from internet according to the type of the train)
Dinning Train
Toilet
Passengers can choose whether they want to reserve the seat or not, when reserved this place will show it, but for the whole trip passenger should pay extra 4,50 euro, if you don’t reserve the seat then when the passenger comes you should give the seat to him or her.
After an hour Norman has arrived at thecentral station Frankfurt am Main
As a great international Frankfurt am Mainhave the different delicious foods from the whole world, beside the “Dönner”from Turkey which is very normal in Germany there is also “crêps” from France.
ICE 1559 from Frankfurt am Main to Erfurt,travel time 2 hours 25 minutes, distance is about 260 kliometers. This is also a masterpiece from German Railway company for the “Save water”…
As a strong nation for high speed railway, the CRH(China Railway High-speed) have also introduced advanced technic from German Railway, nowadays the train type CRH 3 is also the fruit for the study and improve from ICE type 3, so whatever from appearance or inside these two types of trains are very similar.
Welcome to ICE with new Internet WLAN:1.Open WLAN 2. Choose WIFIonICE 3. In Browser login the WIFIonICE
The economy class
The price of Restaurant on Train, the Prices are adaptable.
The wide gooses fly with formation, but the situation is hard to find in China with countless big cities and even some mega cities.
After two and an half hours Norman have arrived incentral station Erfurt.
Erfurt is the capital of state Thuringia in Germany, it’s located on a beach of rivers in the central of Germany with lotsof places of interests, is a city which is worth to visit; Thuringia located inthe central of Germany and is a new state of Federal Republic Germany, thespecial local product is Thuringia Sausage.
For the travel guide of Erfurt please lookat Photos for travel in Erfurt.
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