Germany’s BRAND NEW Regional High Speed Train is a Game Changer!

In this video, I take a look at DB's brand new RE29 service which runs under the Franken-Thuringen Express sub brand, with brand new Siemens Desiro 190km/h capable trains tasked for the job. This new service will initially run with 5 return services a day between the two cities, providing great links for the local area thanks to the use of the high speed rail line between Erfurt and Nuremberg, but just what makes it so great? Find out in this video!

Journey details:
Date of travel - June 2024
Operator - DB Regio
Origin - Erfurt Hbf
Destination - Nurnberg Hbf
Class of travel - First
Price - €87.20/£73.84/$97.59 (First class single)
Duration - 1 hour, 52 minutes

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:45 Erfurt Hbf
02:31 Desiro HC and the Franken-Thuringen Express
03:39 Boarding First Class
04:00 Our Route
04:32 Departure and 190km/h!
05:28 Know Your Seat
06:52 High Speed Line Exit & Coburg
08:24 Rejoining the High Speed Line
09:18 Train Interior
09:55 Toilets
10:31 Furth (Bay) Hbf and Conclusions
11:34 Arrival into Nuremberg and Outro - Thanks for Watching!

[Sacto]

Finally. European railroads used to really discourage bringing bicycles on board trains, but now the new train sets have plentiful bike storage.

[Eric_Hunt]

Thameslink: "First Class is about priority getting a seat, not additional comfort."
Deutsche Bahn: "Hold my beer!"

[patrickhanft]

The Deutschland-Ticket is without any doubt a fantastic solution for anyone traveling in Germany regularly or on several regional trips within a month. However, if you are not a continuing regular user, please be aware that it is a subscription based ticket in need of cancellation usually latest at the tenth of a month so you don't have to pay for the following month as well! So if you plan to use the ticket for your vacation in Germany, plan ahead to buy and cancel the ticket in time!

[Hongaars]

As someone currently living in Croatia and having previously lived in Sydney and Auckland, all I can say is that by comparison, Germany has an excellent and extensive network. I am aware of the many complaints people make about reliability and punctuality. Thank you to the channel for this upload. You still have a great infrastructure.

[hagmax]

When Stuttgart21 is finished there will be 200kmh fast regional trains running on the full Stuttgart - Ulm high Speed Line as well as on the Mannheim - Stuttgart hsl between Stuttgart and Bruchsal.

And while all of this sounds new and exiting, we should not forget that in France they have the 200kmh fast regional train between Basel and Strasbourg for decades now.

[SpeedBird]

Coburg is being served by ICE in the gaps where the RE29 doesn't drive. The rest of the route is being served by RE19 in these gaps.

[Sanginius]

those fast regional Services are very promising and those Siemens Deserio HC are very popular in Germany

[nickriedel]

Regional Trains are generally more punctual. And the 2 Min. delay at the start is usually created by passengers trying to hold the door open for friends. the ICE is usually the one that produced alot of delays, including the ones in the Regional Services.

[rickbhattacharya]

Siemens Deserio are my favorite non ICE train in Germany. It's really really good. I have had opportunity to ride this in Munich area and they are really comfortable and the blue colored ones also look really beautiful.

[Nightwalker-]

I'm a railfan from Chicago. Nonstop Eurotrip recommended your channel. Great selection of videos.

[nareshwildbones]

Wow, watching this video while I am waiting for my train at the Erfurt HBF

[ExecutorElassus]

I've ridden the new Desiro sets on ODEG's regional services around Berlin, and can confirm they're super-smooth and fast rides. One other detail about these trains, at least on the ODEG sets, that's really interesting: on a couple cars in the middle of each set they have doors at both of the usual platform heights, labeled A and B on the door, so you can always have level boarding even at stations with the older platform height. It's a subtle thing, but like the rest of the train shows a good attention to detail.
Excellent video, thanks for putting this together.

[michaelb]

You can look forward to the MüNüX finally running reliably. Unfortunately, we still don't have a nationwide HS network from Hamburg to Munich in Germany and are therefore accepting more travelling time and disruption as well as economic cuts. And I hope that projects such as the IRE200, the MüNüX and the FTX will eventually set a precedent throughout Germany... a Hamburg-Hanover Express would be a dream. Perhaps the FTX will be linked through to Munich at some point. Because you can still dream. Thanks for your video.

[paxundpeace]

They do alternate with ICE trains stopping at Coburg.

In additon between Bamberg and Nürnberg they alternate with hourly REs from Sonneberg.

More on this in the Video from Zug 2013 on this topic.

[jossdeiboss]

49 euros only for one month!? That's amazing!

[konichiwamina]

First time seeing someone make a detail vid from Erfurt, also hopefully DB will increase the frequently of this RE29, maybe 60 to 90 mins per train, but maybe in my dreams 😅

[-Eckhart]

Fürth has an umlaut, which you can write thus: "Fuerth", Nürnberg (Nuernberg) has too, but it also has an English name, Nuremberg.

[Variable_cult]

I love how the regional trains can also be used to go to other bigger city’s without spending that much as the ICE/IC trains (I think regional trains can also be used as local trains as well because it stops at almost every stop)

[HerrGru]

These trains are amazing we need them between munic and Nürmberg too ^^ the skoda trains have at the Moment a lot of Problems

[wernerderchamp]

Some additional facts as a regular commuter:
7:08 Some may ask why tf does this train stop at this tiny station. The reason is that the connecting time in the main station to Sonneberg would be too short. The line between Coburg and Sonneberg only has a single track with no passing opportunity, so there is no leeway right now. This might be improved with the next schedule.
7:57 These trains are used for all other regional trains in the area that have electrified lines. Regular lines only have a max speed of 160, so its sufficient.
8:12 These were the previously used regional trains, now only used on the Nürnberg S-Bahn. Fun fact, the Desiro HCs were also parked at the former freight terminal in Coburg.
8:53 We actually skip all of them. The reason being, trains cannot pass a platform with more than 200km/h. While this train would be fine, the ICEs wouldn't. So the train would have to switch lines to reach the existing stations or you'd have to expand the station to 6 tracks with two going straight through and missing the platform.
The line is actually very punctual. And if its delayed, it's often just 5-10 minutes, usually because an ICE wants to pass or because of the opposing train blocking the single-track section north of Coburg. This almost always happens going northbound. Also the trains sometimes wobbles from left to right. Siemens said this will fix itself, but does not seem so.