ICE line 12 runs two-hourly from Berlin via Wolfsburg, Göttingen, Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe, Frankfurt am Main and Karlsruhe to Basel, with individual trains continuing into Switzerland (Interlaken, Brig, Chur).
Ausbaustrecken Berlin–Hannover über Wolfsburg und Braunschweig sowie Hildesheim–Göttingen–Fulda–Frankfurt; ab Mannheim über die Rheintalbahn, ab Karlsruhe über Teile der noch nicht vollständig ausgebauten Strecke Karlsruhe–Basel
Maximum speed
bis zu 250 km/h (ICE 4)
Status
In Betrieb
Operator
DB Fernverkehr AG
Owner
Deutsche Bahn AG (Betreiber: DB Fernverkehr AG)
Rolling stock
ICE 4
Headway
Zweistundentakt (mit Linie 13 Berlin–Fulda und Linie 43 Mannheim–Basel gemeinsame Stundentakte)
ICE line 12 connects Berlin via Wolfsburg, Braunschweig, Hildesheim, Göttingen, Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe and Fulda with Frankfurt am Main and runs via the Rhine Valley railway (Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Freiburg) to Basel. Every second train crosses the border into Switzerland, with individual trains continuing to Bern, Interlaken, Visp/Brig or Zurich/Chur. Trains of the ICE 4 series are used.
Line 12 runs two-hourly from Berlin via Braunschweig, Kassel and Frankfurt to Basel and on into Switzerland, with individual trains to Zurich, Chur, Interlaken or Brig. Between Berlin and Fulda it forms an hourly service with line 13, established in 2017, and between Mannheim and Basel with line 43. One overnight train pair runs via Hanover instead of Braunschweig.
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