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Train Recognition Guide Super High Speed Main Manufacturers European Countries Austria Belgium Croatia Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia > Germany Gallery Germany High Speed Multiple Units Electric Multiple Units Diesel Locomotives Electric Locomotives Diesel Rails on North Sea Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Poland Russia Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom North America Asian Countries China Mongolia		General information on Railways in Germany The old Germany main page is can be found here while this page is being updated. Germany is the largest and most active railroading country in Europe. A look at the map reveals that the country of over 80 million people is in the crossroads of the continent. Like the observation on the trainorders.com shows, there might be trains every few minutes both ways on the busiest double tracked segments! The mighty operator of the country is Deutsche Bahn but due to the EU open access policy there are currently more than a dozen other operators too on the German tracks (The state owns the track and every operator may use it). While much of the traffic is on the freight side, Germany also has a lively passenger traffic on local, regional, national and international levels. DB has started a strong presence in the international operations due to open access for passenger side from the beginning of this year. German Railroad Organizations...	Created for 4rail.net by Ilkka Siissalo and John McKey. Pictures by Stanislav Voronin, Ilkka Siissalo, Hannu Peltola and John McKey. Also in this section Germany RR Main Page is a great place to start browsing on the German railroading. Germany High Speed Page brings you the present and the development of the German HS. There are also some of the most unusual railroading sites in Germany: one of the is the island railroads on the North Sea.
		Super High Speed Trains and Networks of Germany You have probably heard of the German ICE (Inter City Express) super high speed trains. Only rivalled in Europe by TGVs of SNCF in France, the operator DB currently has a formidable fleet of ICE 1, ICE 2 and ICE 3 trainsets in use and more in order to fullfill the capacity needs for national and international super high speed travel. While the futuristic rolling stock is the pride of the DB, the state of Germany has been gradually building its high tech super high speed concrete runways for its trains, currently over 1000 km of this track is already in use. High Speed in Germany... The ICE Theme Page... Super High Speed Main Page...
		Rolling Stock of Germany Germany is a huge railroading nation with a breathtaking variety of rolling stock. Currently we have a special page for ICE / Velaro trains by Siemens and Traxx locomotive platform of Bombardier. More can be shortly found on our rolling stock recognition guide. German Electric Locomotives... German Diesel Locomotives... German Electric Multiple Units... German Diesel Multiple Units... Traxx Locomotives of Bombardier... The ICE Story of Germany... Train Recognition guide... Class 66 Page...
		Rails on the North Sea Islands Germany also has some very unusual railroading sites. One of them is the railroads on the North Sea islands. Railroads on the North Sea islands... Rails on Borkum Island...






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