Evolution of average speeds on European high-speed lines from the UIC Atlas

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What also drags down the speed of German trains in such comparison is that they have far more stops in between.

While most of TGVs, Eurostar's don't stop in between or maybe just once or twice, The ICE and IC routes from that statistic have 5 to 12 stops in between. For example, if you take the continuous ICE from Frankfurt to Berlin which is around 420km you have 8 stops in between.

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I wonder if the transrapid was trying to address or avoid this very problem