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InterCity is the classification applied to certain long-distance Passenger Train services in Europe . Such trains (in contrast to regional, local, or commuter trains) generally call at major Station s only. The term originated in the United Kingdom , with the InterCity Sector Of British Rail . Following the privatization of the railways in Great Britain , the term is no longer in official use there, although many people still refer to fast long-distance services as InterCity trains. In a number of countries the payment of a supplement over and above the ordinary fare is required for travel by InterCity trains. For example:
In Switzerland , an Intercity, or IC, is a train that will only stop at large stations (Such as Fribourg, Bern, Lausanne, Geneva and Zürich) This is usuallly a double-decker train. According to the railway operators, InterCity trains consume only a third of the energy requirement of passenger airplanes and just a sixth of that demanded by single-occupancy private cars, and are consequently promoted as both energy-efficient and environmentally friendly transport modes. EuroCity trains are a higher-specification version of InterCity services. In Germany , the InterCity Express high-speed trains were originally intended to supplement the InterCity network on a few selected routes. ICEs share most high-speed lines with InterCity trains, but ICs go at 200 km/h while ICEs accelerate to 250 km/h or more. The InterCity system in Germany was started in 1971 with First-class-car-train sets an runs all two hours on a for-lines network. The TEE-trains was itegrated in this system. In 1978 the Hamburg-Cologne-IC-trains runs every hours with cars of both first and second class. One year later, all the IC-trains runs every hour with first and second-class-train sets on the Intercity network. A network upgrade brings five lines in the 1985 . With the end of the German Democratic Republic in 1990 the western german IC runs also in this country and to Berlin. In 1991 was startet the german high speed train network with the ICE-trains. |
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