With the start of the summer schedule this Sunday, Deutsche Bahn has expanded its offer.
According to the company, more ICE trains are to be used in popular holiday regions, among other places, and more than 10,000 additional seats are to be made available every day.
In addition, the new XXL-ICE with space for more than 900 passengers went into regular use that morning for the first time.
The XXL-ICE now runs according to schedule from Hamburg via Hanover and Frankfurt am Main to Switzerland to Basel, Zurich and Chur.
He is also on the route Hamburg-Dortmund-Cologne-Frankfurt Airport-Stuttgart-Munich.
The first of the new trains started in the morning from Hamburg-Altona station.
As part of an anniversary event at Berlin Central Station on Tuesday, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier named one of the 374-meter-long XXL ICE trains with the name “Federal Republic of Germany”.