Date: 23.04.2024
Train number: 314
Starting station: Frankfurt am Main Hbf
Final station: Bruxelles Midi
Number of stops: 7
Maximum delay: -
Train type: ICE 3 (BR 406)
Operator: Deutsche Bahn
Vmax. train: 330 km/h
Vmax. railway: 300 km/h
Travel time: 03:09 h
Travelling from Frankfurt to Brussels on board of a Class 406...an experience which will be a thing of the past very soon. Namely these EMUs are going to be replaced by the new ICE 3neo or Class 408 on all connections into foreign countries, due to their high liability to technical disruptions. This was the cause for me to take the ICE 314 from Frankfurt to Brussels and to record the whole trip, in order to keep the Class 406 in cross-border service for posterity...on my hard drive and here on RU-vid.
The ICE-connection from Frankfurt to Brussels is a real high speed connection in relation to usual ICE services, because it includes four high speed railways in total. After going really slow between Frankfurt main station and Frankfurt Airport, this train takes the high speed railway towards Cologne, where it reaches the full speed of 300 km/h. Just after Cologne there is the next high speed railway, which ranges to Düren. There are 250 km/h possible, but this ICE just briefly accelerated past 230 km/h. Otherwise it went at moderate speed. From Düren to the border between Germany and Belgium the railway is winding, therefore the train can´t go past 160 km/h there. But right after the border the 260 km/h fast HSL 3 to Liège branches off. The HSL 2, which then bring this ICE from Liège to Leuven, is even built for 300 km/h. But on that ride no faster speed than 250 km/h was reached in Belgium. The last part of the railway to Brussels has four tracks with a speed limit of 200 km/h on the long distant tracks. So the ICE 314 finally reaches Brussels from the north, so it has to transit the city tunnel, in order to get to Bruxelles Midi, the southern station of the city.
On this trip I actually didn´t get confronted with the high liability to technical disruptions of the Class 406. This train even went on time at all stations!
Time indication:
0:00:49 Frankfurt am Main Hbf
0:12:27 Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbahnhof
0:27:28 --- Limburg Süd
0:32:19 --- Montabaur
0:49:50 --- Siegburg/Bonn
0:59:39 --- Köln Messe/Deutz
1:03:39 Köln Hbf
1:20:15 --- Düren
1:29:17 --- Stolberg (Rheinl) Hbf
1:36:59 Aachen Hbf
1:42:08 --- Deutschland/Belgium border
1:56:43 Liège-Guillemins
2:21:59 --- Leuven
2:35:57 Bruxelles Nord
2:40:23 --- Bruxelles Central
2:42:31 Bruxelles Midi
Have a nice trip!
22 окт 2024
