ICE line 43 runs two-hourly from Hamburg-Altona via Bremen, the Ruhr area, Cologne, Frankfurt Airport, Mannheim and Karlsruhe to Basel, with individual trains continuing to Zurich or Chur.
Ausbaustrecken Hamburg–Bremen–Ruhrgebiet; Schnellfahrstrecke Köln–Rhein/Main zum Frankfurter Flughafen; 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 42 Köln–Mannheim und Linie 12 Mannheim–Basel gemeinsame Stundentakte)
ICE line 43 connects northern Germany with Switzerland. It runs two-hourly from Hamburg-Altona via Hamburg Hbf, Bremen, Osnabrück, Münster and Dortmund to Cologne, onward via the Cologne–Rhine/Main high-speed line to Frankfurt Airport and via Mannheim, Karlsruhe and Freiburg to Basel. Individual trains run via Zurich to Chur or into the Valais. Trains of the ICE 4 series are used.
Line 43 runs two-hourly between Hamburg and Basel; individual trains run to Zurich/Chur or into the Valais. Until 2025, one train pair began and ended in Binz or Hanover; in its place, individual services to Zurich/Chur or Brig operate. Since 2026 the trains have regularly stopped in Baden-Baden instead of Offenburg, swapped with line 20.
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