DB Vehicle Maintenance

New ICE maintenance depot opened in Cottbus

Just under 20 months after the groundbreaking ceremony, the new ICE maintenance depot in Cottbus went into operation in January 2024. The 374-m-long XXL ICE 4 with 13 rail cars and 918 seats can fit into the almost 450-m-long depot hall. Two of the shorter, seven-car ICE 4 trains, each about 200 m long, can be parked one behind the other on the two maintenance tracks. The trains no longer have to be separated for maintenance, as they do in other depots. Employees can work on all rail cars at the same time. DB Group will initially create 450 new industrial jobs and apprenticeships at the Cottbus site and is expected to create a total of about 1,200 new jobs by 2026.