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GERMAN Rail's (DB) entire fleet of 63 ICE3 high-speed trains, which operate a large part of the German long-distance network have been subject to increasingly regular and onerous ultrasonic tests following the derailment of an ICE3 in Cologne in mid-July.
Rather than the original 300,000km inspection interval, this was reduced to every 30,000km, meaning inspections are taking place every four weeks, instead of every...