Fecken awesome... there'll be no need to make my way to the airport after this when travelling up north.
Got to love how the media here in Germany is complaining about the €10b cost of a 600+ km railway line project with 22 new tunnels and the UK is about to spend £56b on a 200km line from London to Birmingham!!
Due to travel up to Berlin in January - looking forward to it. in fairness Edinburgh to London only takes 4 hours 45 minutes, although it's a shaky ride at speed.
source: From Berlin to Munich in just four hours | Business | DW | 08.12.2017
Got to love how the media here in Germany is complaining about the €10b cost of a 600+ km railway line project with 22 new tunnels and the UK is about to spend £56b on a 200km line from London to Birmingham!!
Due to travel up to Berlin in January - looking forward to it. in fairness Edinburgh to London only takes 4 hours 45 minutes, although it's a shaky ride at speed.
Germany has officially inaugurated a new high-speed rail route between the two German cities, slashing travel time to four hours from six. Steven Beardsley was aboard one of the first two ceremonial trains.
Bildergalerie Verkehrsprojekt Deutsche Einheit Nummer 8 (Deutsche Bahn AG/Frank Barteld)
Chancellor Angela Merkel was at Berlin's central train station on Friday to celebrate the inauguration of Germany's new high-speed rail line between the capital and the country's third-most populous city, Munich.
The ceremonial first journey from Munich to Berlin clocked in at just about four hours, two hours shorter than the previous connection. Over 300 rail and 170 road bridges had to be built along the 623-kilometer (387-mile) route, on which trains can travel at a maxium speed of 300 kilometers per hour (186 mph).
Politically symbolic and technically impressive, the new high-speed rail line between Munich and Berlin also injects some much-needed competition to Germany's long-distance travel market.
By shaving off a third of the travel time between the two cities and speeding up times elsewhere, German rail operator Deutsche Bahn has made passenger rail an even more attractive alternative to flying, in particular.
Bildergalerie Verkehrsprojekt Deutsche Einheit Nummer 8 (Deutsche Bahn AG/Frank Barteld)
Chancellor Angela Merkel was at Berlin's central train station on Friday to celebrate the inauguration of Germany's new high-speed rail line between the capital and the country's third-most populous city, Munich.
The ceremonial first journey from Munich to Berlin clocked in at just about four hours, two hours shorter than the previous connection. Over 300 rail and 170 road bridges had to be built along the 623-kilometer (387-mile) route, on which trains can travel at a maxium speed of 300 kilometers per hour (186 mph).
Politically symbolic and technically impressive, the new high-speed rail line between Munich and Berlin also injects some much-needed competition to Germany's long-distance travel market.
By shaving off a third of the travel time between the two cities and speeding up times elsewhere, German rail operator Deutsche Bahn has made passenger rail an even more attractive alternative to flying, in particular.
source: From Berlin to Munich in just four hours | Business | DW | 08.12.2017
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