In addition, Deutsche Bahn will also have ICE trains with stepless entrances from 2024. 23 low-floor trains from the Spanish manufacturer Talgo will be delivered by 2027, as the railway has now announced. Passengers with restricted mobility and customers with bulky luggage, bicycles or prams can board these trains more easily than the other ICE series.
Stepless access is to become standard in future tenders, as board member Michael Peterson announced at the presentation of the train in Berlin. “Our goal as DB is: rail travel for everyone, rail travel without barriers.” By 2030, the railway will get numerous new ICE with stages from existing contracts.
The Talgo train will first be used between Berlin and Amsterdam, and later also on connections to Sylt and the Allgäu. The 23 trains cost about 550 million euros. The train calls them ICE-L (low floor).