was licensed for operation in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. On the French LGV Est, some trains reached a regular top speed of . The 17 class 406 sets were built by the same consortium as the Class 403.

Operations

They were first introduced in November 2000 on services between Cologne and Amsterdam. Since December 2002, they have also been operating three journeys daily each way between Frankfurt and Brussels (increased to four per day since December 2010).

In Belgium, the train

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