Metropolitan (train)

Metropolitan Express Train GmbH
	DB Metropolitan train passing Dülmen station, March 2002
Overview
Fleet size	4 locomotives, 2 trainsets
Stations called at	4
Parent company	DB Fernverkehr AG (itself a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG)
Headquarters	Bad Homburg
Locale	Germany
Dates of operation	1 August 1999–11 December 2004/10 December 2021
Successor	ICE Sprinter
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Electrification	15 kV AC, 16.7 Hz
Operating speed	200 km/h (120 mph), 220 km/h (140 mph)
Other
Website	www.met.de [dead link]
Route map
	Legend
	Hamburg
	Lower Saxony
	Lower Saxony
	Bremen
	Bremen
	Lower Saxony
	Lower Saxony
	North Rhine-Westphalia
	North Rhine-Westphalia
	Lower Saxony
	Lower Saxony
	North Rhine-Westphalia
	Lower Saxony
	North Rhine-Westphalia

The Metropolitan (stylised as MetropolitaN) was a premium passenger train service between the cities of Cologne and Hamburg in Germany. Meant as an alternative to air transport, the first-class-only trains were operated from 1 August 1999 until 11 December 2004 by the Metropolitan Express Train GmbH (MET GmbH) based in Bad Homburg, a wholly owned subsidiary of the DB Fernverkehr AG wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG. Service was discontinued in December 2004 due to low usage and profitability;^[1] the trainsets were deployed in InterCity and Intercity Express traffic before being retired at the end of 2021, when they were offered for sale.^[2]^[3]

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^ "Metropolitan kann auch ICE". DB Welt [de] (in German). February 2010. p. 23.
^ "Der Exot des Fernverkehrs geht in Rente" [The exotic of long-distance travel retires]. Deutsche Bahn (in German). Archived from the original on 20 August 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
^ "Metropolitan Express Train (MET)". Gebrauchtzugportal Personenverkehr (in German). DB Regio AG. 27 September 2022. Archived from the original on 1 October 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022.

[dbwelt-2010-02-o23-2] "Metropolitan kann auch ICE". DB Welt [de] (in German). February 2010. p. 23.

[bahn-3] "Der Exot des Fernverkehrs geht in Rente" [The exotic of long-distance travel retires]. Deutsche Bahn (in German). Archived from the original on 20 August 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2022.

[4] "Metropolitan Express Train (MET)". Gebrauchtzugportal Personenverkehr (in German). DB Regio AG. 27 September 2022. Archived from the original on 1 October 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022.

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