Class 403+404.1+404.0+403 at Berlin-Spandau Johannesstift
(Osthavelländische Eisenbahn AG). Three 4-car trains were
built 1973 as prototypes for a new generation of Intercity
trains for 200 km/h with all wheels powered. They could have
served as prototypes for the high speed trains later known
as ICE, but no larger series was ordered. The prototypes 
served as 1st class Intercity trains until 1979, but their 
capacity was too small for the new two-class system IC'79, 
so they were used only as special trains from then on, and
rebuilt into the "Lufthansa Airport Express" in 1982, and
used between the airports of Frankfurt (Main) and Düsseldorf
until the Lufthansa gave up these trains. For a long time
they stood unused in the DBAG works of Nürnberg, then the
Prignitzer Eisenbahn bought the units - now they are stored
on a siding of the OHE in Berlin.
2002-04-26. <a href="mailto:tbk@uncia.de">tbk</a>