Length: 112km Vmax: 160/200km/h 4 Tracks (technically 2 freight Tracks and 2 passenger trains) Year: 2008 One of the Most important Lines in Germany going from NRW to East germany New Train: ICE 2; Maybe Br 120 History This Route is one of the buziest routes in Germany. Build in 1847 as Double Track and between 1909 and 1916 as Four tracked. There have been way over 500 Highspeed Testings. (More will follow but right now it´s late and i am Not on my PC) What makes this Route so Special? First of all it takes about 60 min to Complete in a ICE and IC. In an RE it´s about 75 Minutes. The freightpart is quite Heavy. With a Lot of freight trains. There is a Lot of vararity in the Services. Between Hamm and Bielefeld a local Train can Go on the freight Tracks and still operate all the stations because the Plattforms Are on the passenger and Freight Tracks. Allowing ICEs to overtake without the local trains having to wait for the ICE to pass by. In the Year 2008 Most stations where Not renovated yet. So other Timetables from other periods Are very easy to implement. Also the Station announcments from Hamm-Heessen to Isselhorst-Avenwedde Are done by Person and Are Not automated. Gütersloh Hbf is one of the few stations where ICEs and ICs have to Break from 200 to 0 but Not all Long distance trains have a stop so you always have to Check. Rolling Stock: So for the Elefant in the room: Why the Year and Why the ICE 2? First of all the Year. This was the last year where DB operated the RB69. So no New licenses needed and Not a whole lot of New rollingstock. If it where to set in a more modern timetable the Rollingstock required would be a whole Lot more. I know the ICE 4 is a Lot more requested but it would be to much compromisses. A Flirt 1, IC 2 and BR 643 would be required at least. And a quite large mix of New Licensing for example Eurobahn. New would be the ICE 2 with the famous Zugvereinigung in Hamm. ( I found no good english word but basically one ICE 2 goes via Düsseldorf, Essen and DOrtmund to Hamm and the Other via Solingen, Hagen to Hamm and they unite in Hamm.) The ICE 2 is Special because depending in what constelation the ICEs are coppled the Vmax Changes between 160km/h and 280km/h ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE_2 ). There Are also some Services with the ICE 3 Between Hannover and Basel/Garmisch Partenkirchen. The ICs Are operated with 101s and 120s and mostly 8 Waggons and a Controllcar. There Are some Nighttrains with the 101 or 120. Most of them Cover the whole route but some Are going to Osnabrück and further to the Netherlands. These Are AI with a 101 and 9 IC Waggons The RB 69 was operated with a 425 and Connects Bielefeld with Münster via Hamm (Hamm-Bielefeld/Herford) The RE 6 was operated with 6 Dostos and a 111 Same goes for the RE 70(Bielefeld-Minden) And the RE 60(Löhne-Minden) The RE 78 was operated with a Br 644 later Br 425 (Gütersloh/Bielefeld-Minden) AI Trains Hamm: RE1,RE 7 is operated with 111/112 and Dostos RE 3: 2x 425 RE 11: 3x 425 Bielefeld: I can´t find a Lot of the Trains in Bielefeld but a Mix of 642 and 628 would fit. Herford: RB 72: 143 with 4 N-Waggons???? RB 77: Br 628 Minden S1: 425 Pictures will come in the Near Future.
