Editing Intercity Express (section)

{{short description|German state-owned high-speed rail system}}
{{redirect|Ice Train|the professional wrestler|Ice Train (wrestler)|other uses|Intercity-Express (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox rail
| railroad_name    = Intercity Express
| logo_filename    = ICE-Logo.svg
| logo_size        = 100
| system_map       =
| map_caption      =
| map_size         =
| marks            =
| image            = ICE 3 Oberhaider-Wald-Tunnel.jpg
| image_size       = 250
| image_caption    = A German [[ICE 3]] trainset exiting a tunnel
| locale           = '''Germany''', Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and France. Formerly Denmark.
| start_year       = 1985
| end_year         = present
| predecessor_line = See [[#History|History]]
| successor_line   =
| gauge            = {{Track gauge|sg|allk=on}}
| length           =
| hq_city          =
| website          = {{official URL}}
}}

'''Intercity Express''' (commonly known as '''ICE''' ({{IPA|de|iːtseːˈʔeː|-|De-ICE.ogg}}) and running under this [[Train categories in Europe|category]]) is a [[high-speed rail in Germany|high-speed rail system in Germany]]. It also serves destinations in Austria, France, Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands as part of cross-border services. It is the flagship of the German state railway, [[Deutsche Bahn]]. ICE fares are fixed for station-to-station connections, on the grounds that the trains have a higher level of comfort. Travelling at speeds up to {{convert|300|km/h|abbr=on}} within Germany and {{convert|320|km/h|abbr=on}} when in France, they are aimed at business travellers and long-distance commuters and marketed by Deutsche Bahn as an alternative to flights.

The [[ICE 3]] also has been the development base for the [[Siemens Velaro]] family of trainsets which has subsequently been exported to [[RENFE]] in Spain ([[AVE Class 103]]), which are certified to run at speeds up to {{convert|350|km/h|abbr=on}},<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.transportation.siemens.com/ts/en/pub/newsline/newsline/presse_2001/2001/04_03_2001.htm |title=International breakthrough for Siemens high-speed train technology |publisher=Siemens |date=3 April 2001 |access-date=12 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061016173437/http://www.transportation.siemens.com/ts/en/pub/newsline/newsline/presse_2001/2001/04_03_2001.htm |archive-date=16 October 2006 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> as well as versions ordered by China for the [[Beijing–Tianjin intercity railway]] link ([[China Railway CRH3|CRH 3]]) and by Russia for the Moscow–[[Saint Petersburg]] and Moscow–[[Nizhny Novgorod]] routes ([[Velaro RUS]])<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.siemens.ru/siemens.sbs?res=ru/press/releases/RZD_contact |script-title=ru:Новый международный успех высокоскоростных поездов "Сименс" |publisher=Siemens |date=19 March 2006 |access-date=12 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927023012/http://www.siemens.ru/siemens.sbs?res=ru%2Fpress%2Freleases%2FRZD_contact |archive-date=27 September 2007 |language=ru |url-status=dead  }}</ref> with further customers being [[Eurostar]] as well as [[Turkey]] and [[Egypt]].