If you land in Frankfurt, and reserve your seat on the Frankfurt Airport to Koln-City train (no stops in between).....then this route takes you approximately 55 minutes, and will travel for more than half the trip at 300 kph.
There are very few routes in Germany (four) operating at this level today. The other six? Erfurt to Leipzig, Stuttgart to Mannheim, Munich to Nuremberg, Berlin to Hannover, Erfurt to Nuremberg,
and Hannover to Wurzburg.
There are five additional routes in the work-situation right now, and will eventually be high-speed: Frankfurt-City to Mannheim, Karlsruhr to Basel, Geinhausen to Hanu, Wendingen to Stuttgart, and Wendingen to Ulm.
The feeling? Basically, you can attempt to look out the window but it's mostly a blur-situation, and if you do get up to walk around the cabin.....you have to hold onto something as you walk.....to steady your balance.
Odds of surviving an accident? About ten minutes into this speed thrill....I started to think about this. With roughly 500 to 800 folks on the train, I'd take a guess that less 10-percent would survive the accident. My humble guess is that they inspect the line each and every day.
Here's the thing though.....if you drove this route (airport at Frankfurt to Koln-City), it'd take 100 minutes roughly, if there were no staus or accidents along the way. So you are saving time.
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