Nice video! Most of the high-speed trains have longer journey time which is very unique, e.g. the route from Kiel/Berlin to the last station of Switzerland for the whole route of the line is about 10 hours by high-speed trains. That is very long. Are the drivers changed by other drivers for long routes in a station? Because a driver can not drive a train for e.g. 10 hours. That is too much for a driver I think.
You are right, 10 hours in one run is too long for one train driver so the trains change drivers on the way, especially at Terminus stations like Frankfurt or Stuttgart, where it is also impossible for one driver to be ready for departure at the other end of the train within the 6 minutes the train is stopping there. Based on what I see from some DB train drivers sharing their duties for the day on Instagram, IC/ICE trains actually change their driver quite often, like every 2-4 hours. Sometimes even one driver only rides the train for 15 minutes from Frankfurt Hbf to the Airport station, riding one train for 5-6 hours seems to be the maximum until a break is planned. And I assume that DB doesn't want their drivers to drive longer distances because it would lead to more hotel nights somewhere else, which means extra costs for the company.
@@thespone Ah ok! Thank you very much! But how about ICE line 22 between Hamburg and Stuttgart? Because the train has to reverse twice in your city: the main and the airport station. Would the drivers also changed by other drivers in the airport station?
You're welcome! Yes, that is very likely. A train on this line will probably come from Hamburg and change the driver in Hannover and/or Kassel, then at Frankfurt central station and then at Frankfurt Airport station. But of course I don't have insights in actual driver shifts, so this is based on assumptions and Instagram stories of train drivers.
![► Trainspotting in Frankfurt (Main), Germany [16.02.11]](/img/n.gif)
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cool, ein sehr schönes Video
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Ja, der ETR610 ist schon ein schöner Zug
Wo wird der nj mit den anderen Garnituren gekoppelt
Der Nightjet wird in Hildesheim Hbf(kein Halt zum Ein- und Ausstiegen) gekuppelt bzw. getrennt ;)
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Nice video! Most of the high-speed trains have longer journey time which is very unique, e.g. the route from Kiel/Berlin to the last station of Switzerland for the whole route of the line is about 10 hours by high-speed trains. That is very long. Are the drivers changed by other drivers for long routes in a station? Because a driver can not drive a train for e.g. 10 hours. That is too much for a driver I think.
You are right, 10 hours in one run is too long for one train driver so the trains change drivers on the way, especially at Terminus stations like Frankfurt or Stuttgart, where it is also impossible for one driver to be ready for departure at the other end of the train within the 6 minutes the train is stopping there. Based on what I see from some DB train drivers sharing their duties for the day on Instagram, IC/ICE trains actually change their driver quite often, like every 2-4 hours. Sometimes even one driver only rides the train for 15 minutes from Frankfurt Hbf to the Airport station, riding one train for 5-6 hours seems to be the maximum until a break is planned. And I assume that DB doesn't want their drivers to drive longer distances because it would lead to more hotel nights somewhere else, which means extra costs for the company.
@@thespone Ah ok! Thank you very much! But how about ICE line 22 between Hamburg and Stuttgart? Because the train has to reverse twice in your city: the main and the airport station. Would the drivers also changed by other drivers in the airport station?
You're welcome! Yes, that is very likely. A train on this line will probably come from Hamburg and change the driver in Hannover and/or Kassel, then at Frankfurt central station and then at Frankfurt Airport station. But of course I don't have insights in actual driver shifts, so this is based on assumptions and Instagram stories of train drivers.
@@thespone Mm. Thank you very much! 🙂
@@UHarshanBlackBoy1995 You're welcome! :)