Rail traffic and 200 km/h Hanover - Hamburg - Germany ICE high-speed trains [4K]

Germany ICE high-speed and freight trains traffic at central - northern Germany main railway line Hanover - Hamburg. Operating speed for ICE and IC trains is 200km/h and there's also very dense and frequent freight rail traffic. There is an extraordinary number of old and new types of Deutsche Bahn InterCity Express trains (DB ICE 1, ICE 2, ICE T, ICE 4 in all three train formations).

It is an extremely busy railway line with around 400 trains per day (around 200/day per direction). Industrial centers and the port of Hamburg are the main generators of a large number of intermodal and all other types of freight trains. Container intermodal trains are prevailing. The Hanover–Hamburg railway is one of the most important railway lines in Lower Saxony and Germany. It links the Lower Saxon state capital of Hanover with Hamburg, running through Celle, Uelzen and Lüneburg.

One of the main highlights of this video is the special sound effects and accompanying feeling of fast trains passing by. Special scenic environment for the filming was achieved by relatively calm winter weather and the old railway buildings and facilities on the side of the tracks dating back almost 180 years.

The old railway line, renovated and modernized for speeds of 200 km/h, is completely integrated into the natural environment it passes through. The peace and quiet that rule the environment, with some calming sounds of nature and the chirping of birds, is occasionally disturbed for a short time by the approaching fast express or freight train. Winter weather without snow, with trees without leaves, provides very interesting contrasting scenes. Then all the sounds of the environment spread easily and the sound of oncoming trains can be heard from a great distance. The loud screeching rail sound under the wheels of the train is especially pronounced when the locomotive of passenger trains accelerates.

At train stations and stops, some platforms for passengers are located next to the main fast tracks. In those cases, an rail station announcement for attention is occasionally heard over the loudspeaker due to the passing of a train without stopping. It sounds powerful, especially when it's repeated twice in a row before a train comes by. In the short time before the oncoming train, there is uncertainty and eager anticipation as to which train will come.

Recording was done on a stretch of 90 km from Lüneburg to Celle. On that section, some scenes were recorded in:
Bienenbüttel - several freight train overtakings by ICE trains;
Bad Bevensen - old scenic railway station, with announcements of caution and attention due to trains passing by the platforms;
Uelzen - station renovated following plans by the Austrian artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. The Uelzen station is now marketed as the Hundertwasser-Bahnhof Uelzen. Today it is one of the town's popular tourist attractions;
Suderburg - evening calming scenes with the silence interrupted by the passing of a couple of ICE trains;
Unterlüß - a scene in a park with train wheels and railway signals with a large number of consecutive intermodal trains;
Eschede - the place where most known high-speed train accident happened (Eschede train disaster). It is the biggest ICE train tragedy ever and the greatest of all high-speed trains tragedies in the World. Memorial garden and park in Eschede is shown in more detail in the second half of the video;
Celle - a night scene with a blue sky, the end of the day's noise and trains rush, with loud sounds from the belfry of the nearby church. The silence of the stopped train is briefly disturbed by sudden passing of the fast ICE train passing on the next track.

Some of the special scenic filming locations are the dense, old forests through which this railway line passes. In the surroundings, with a railway view, there are also beautiful, old historical, German building style houses.
The recording was done over two days in February 2024.