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    "body": "## Overview\n\nICE 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.\n\n## Operator\n\nThe operator is [[organization_db_fernverkehr|DB Fernverkehr (DB Long-Distance Transport)]].\n\n\n## History\n\nLine 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.\n## Major stations\n\nThe line serves, among others, the following stations:\n\n- Berlin Ostbahnhof\n- Berlin Hbf\n- Berlin-Spandau\n- Wolfsburg Hbf\n- Braunschweig Hbf\n- Hildesheim Hbf\n- Göttingen\n- Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe\n- Fulda\n- Frankfurt (Main) Hbf\n- Mannheim Hbf\n- Karlsruhe Hbf\n- Freiburg (Breisgau) Hbf\n- Basel Bad Bf\n- Basel SBB\n\n## Further information\n\nline_frequency: two-hourly",
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