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The Bacchus was an express train in Germany, initially linking
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and Munich. The train was named after the Roman God of wine, although for most of its existence it linked two cities famous for producing beer.


History


Trans Europ Express

In 1971 the Deutsche Bundesbahn started an inner German network of first-class only InterCity services modeled after the
Trans Europ Express The Trans Europ Express, or Trans-Europe Express (TEE), was an international first-class railway service in western and central Europe that was founded in 1957 and ceased in 1995. At the height of its operations, in 1974, the TEE network compri ...
(TEE) criteria, but more frequent than the TEE, one train per hour instead of one train a day. During the 1970s the introduction of second-class coaches in the Intercities was proposed and tested on some routes, resulting in the IC79 project. The IC79 project was implemented at 28 May 1979, but seven inner German services, including a new train, the ''Bacchus'', stayed first-class-only and were classed as TEE to distinguish them from the two-class InterCity. The ''TEE Bacchus'' was withdrawn only one year after the introduction. As it had run only on weekdays, ''Bacchus'' earned itself a record as the shortest-lived TEE, with 254 days of service.


InterCity

The ''Bacchus'' was revived as two class InterCity on 2 June 1985 on the same route until 1 June 1991. A third ''Bacchus'' ran between
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and Münster from 29 May 1994 until 23 May 1998. La Légende des TEE p. 381.


See also

* History of rail transport in Germany *
List of named passenger trains of Europe This article contains lists of named passenger trains in Europe, listed by country. Listing by country does eliminate some EuroCity services from the list, but they are listed on the relevant EuroCity page for daytime trains and the EuroNight ...


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* * * {{Trans Europ Express trains Named passenger trains of Germany Railway services introduced in 1979 Trans Europ Express