Maintenance facilities

Depending on the length of the fixed train-sets, maintenance facilities have to be extended. In high-speed transport articulated trains are typically 150 meters long and require corresponding workshops for maintenance and repairs.

The transition costs are lower for the shorter train-sets used in local and regional transport. The Danish IC3 train-sets with a length of 59 m show that even in main-line transport short units can be used (of course in this particular case this possibility is owed to the special IC3 design allowing to fold away the driver cabins in order to create regular car transitions for passengers).