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> For trains, you would be hard pressed to find a route that is not significantly slower today than 60 years ago.

It took 64 years (until 1997) to again reach the 1933 speed of the Flying Hamburger [0] - 138 minutes from Hamburg to Berlin. Trains today need about 115 minutes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRG_Class_SVT_877




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