page_title: ICE 1
section_title: Refurbishment
hierarchical_section_title: ICE 1 / History / Refurbishment
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Reservierungsschilder aus Papier in der 2. Klasse eines nicht umgebauten ICE 1. English: Reservation slips a 2nd class compartment of an ICE 1 high-speed train
context_page_description: The ICE 1 is the first batch-produced German high-speed train and one of six in the Intercity-Express family. Revenue service at speeds up to 250 km/h started in 1991. It was raised to 280 km/h in May 1995 and later reduced to 250 km/h again. Today, only a handful of ICE 1 services on the Nuremberg–Munich high-speed railway reach 280 km/h.
  Trainsets consist of two power cars and up to 14 intermediate cars. Occasionally, power cars and intermediate cars of the ICE 2 are used as well. Trainsets always operate as a whole train and cars cannot be coupled in regular service.
  One of the 60 trainsets was destroyed in the Eschede derailment. The others were refurbished between 2005 and 2008 and will remain in service for ten to fifteen additional years.
context_section_description: By mid-2005, each ICE 1 trainset had travelled 6.5 to 7.9 million kilometers and had been in revenue service for up to 14 years. In the summer of 2005 a refurbishment program was started, referred to by Deutsche Bahn as "Redesign". It was planned to toughen up all trainsets for another 10 to 15 years of service at the Nuremberg main railway workshop completing in December 2008.
  For the refurbishment, trainsets were taken out of service for five weeks (25 work days). Refurbishing a single ICE 1 trainset costs about three million Euro, a fraction of the cost of buying new trains. The entire program cost about 180 million Euro.
  About 80 percent of the materials are re-used, including 16,000 tons of steel and 1,200 tons of copper from the power cars' traction motors. Compared to buying new trains, the program saves about 1.3 billion Euro. About 35,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions were avoided as well as about 500,000 tons of industrial waste.
  After several weeks of testing, the first refurbished ICE 1 (trainset 11 "Nürnberg") went back into service on 5 August 2005. By March 2006, eleven trainsets had been refurbished, by February 2007 half the fleet (30 trainsets), by June 2007 37 of the 59 trainsets. In 2005, nine trainsets were refurbished, in 2006 and 2007 20 each. Until the end of 2007, two trains underwent refurbishment at the same time. The remaining trainsets were refurbished one-by-one.
  The refurbishment program uses the full capacity of the Nuremberg workshop with 320 jobs.
  In each of the 708 intermediate cars, about 3500 parts were removed, processed or replaced and reinstalled. This included 42,000 seats, 40,000 square meters of carpets, 5000 tables, 42,000 reservation displays and 11,000 window shades. The interior design was adapted to the newer ICE generations.
  Interior changes included:
  new colors, brighter lights
  panelling from teak wood, similar to the second-generation ICE 3 interior
  reduction to the seat pitch in second class to 920 mm. This allows the installation of 60 additional seats per trainset. Because the window arrangement was not changed, this resulted in some "wall window seats": Window seats without windows next to them.
  power sockets on the seats and luggage racks in the center of the car. For supplying the power sockets, four additional power circuits were installed in each car.
  passenger information displays were modernized and displays indicating reserved seats were installed.
  new design of the restaurant car, which now resembles the restaurant cars of the first series ICE T
  the accessible toilet now features a panic button. Buttons to call for assistance have been installed at the wheelchair spaces.
  reduced maximum power due to set IGBT instead of GTO.
  During the refurbishment, the audio and video systems were removed as well as the phone booths, the foot-rests in second class, the terminals for timetable information and the buttons in first class that were used to call the conductor. The backrests in second class compartments do not recline any more, those in second class row seats only by a limited amount. The seat cushion can still be moved to the front by about five centimeters.
  The power cars received new bogie frames and a new power supply for the air conditioning. The power cars of trainsets 01 to 20 were refitted with GTO power converters. Smaller measures included diagnosis and subsequent repair of the driver's brake valve, the installation of new relays into some safety circuits and some software changes.
  After the refurbishment, all trainsets were coupled to a standardized combination of 12 intermediate cars. During the refurbishment, seats that differ between both versions cannot be reserved.
caption: Since refurbishment, seat reservations have been shown on small displays instead of pieces of paper.
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