eurailpress.de reports that the start of first commercial with the new Talgo ICE L low floor trains is postponed again, until ‘mid-2025’.
- It is the second time ICE L introduction is postponed – From December 2023 > Autumn 2024 > Mid 2025.
Thus the testing and authorization again takes longer than expected.
- Dynamic trials on the German rail network started late 2023.
- The plan to start on the international route Berlin – Amsterdam has not changed.
- The services to Oberstdorf and Sylt will follow later.
- 79 have been ordered so far – 23 in 2019 and 56 in 2023.
The delay in the authorization process has an advantage. Talgo was asked to equip the trains with ÖBB WTB bus, and different software/control systems, making them compatible with other modern locomotive types, such as the Vectron MS and Vectron Dual Mode.
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