page_title: ICE 1
section_title: Distinctive features
hierarchical_section_title: ICE 1 / History / Distinctive features
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: FIS (Fahrgast-Informationssystem) in der 2. Klasse eines nicht umgebauten ICE 1 English: Passenger information display on 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: Compared to the InterCity, the new train had several distinctive features. Besides the increased top speed (250 instead of 200 km/h), travelling comfort was improved significantly. The ICE 1's cars are 20 centimeters wider than the newest IC cars at the time, the number of seats per second class car was reduced from 88 to 66 while the car length remained the same.
  All passenger cars were air conditioned. The passages between the cars were wide and without doors, the seat pitch of 102 (second class) and 111 cm (first class) was larger than on any other German train. Furthermore, the doors were unusually wide and featured steps that deployed automatically when the doors were opened to make entry as convenient as possible, and the glass doors dividing the two major areas of the intermediate cars were opened by proximity sensors. The ICE 1 was the first German train in which smokers and non-smokers were separated not into different parts of the same car, but to different cars altogether.
  Each seat featured a standard 3.5 mm audio jack with controls for switching between eight channels: three radio programs from public broadcasters, three programs played from Compact Disc and two audio channels for video programs. In both classes, some seats featured video monitors in the backrests of the seats. Luggage could be stored both above and below the seats. The main part of the car was divided by a coat rack. Every seat had its own reading lamp and information monitors in the entrance areas switched between displaying the train's route and the current speed.
  Because they were conceived in the 1980s, the trainsets had no power sockets available to travellers except for the conference compartment prior to the refurbishment. The few power sockets were placed in order to operate cleaning equipment and were usually disabled during the journey.
caption: Information display next to a door.
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