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GERMAN HIGH-SPEED
200km/h of the historic line running for the Paris-Ost Frankreich-Sud-Deutschland The route from Nürnberg to Erfurt has
187km from Berlin to Halle and Leipzig, (POS) project. A key element of this is the to cross a range of hills, with some
along with another 300km/h new line in replacement of the bridge over the Rhine, impressive tunnels. An early beneficiary of
the south of the country, running for linking Saarbrücken to Strasbourg in this project will be Nürnberg itself, where S-
82km from Nuremberg to Ingolstadt (and France. The new bridge is due to be in Bahn operations on an upgraded stretch of
then for a further 89km on to Munich on place by the end of 2010, and the whole line will begin in 2010. The 122km stretch of
a line upgraded for 200km/h). line to Ludwigshafen should be ready by new line running south from Erfurt through
Meanwhile, to the west of Germany, the end of 2013. the hills is due to be ready in 2017.
the Belgians have been busy constructing a The 81km Rhein/Main – Rhein/Neckar
new high-speed line running east from ‘‘DB Netz has plans to add project will cut 16 minutes from the
Brussels. We have upgraded the line from
more than 1,000 km to
journey time from Mannheim to Frankfurt
Aachen to the border to connect with this,
the high-speed network
when it opens in 2018. The new line will
including construction of a large new bypass Darmstadt, although junctions are
tunnel, the Buschtunnel.
by 2020’’
planned on the new line to allow some
trains to access the town by way of the
Large network The Karlsruhe-Basel project combines historic line.
Germany has been building high-speed upgrading of the historic route along the Tunnels are a feature of the Stuttgart-
railway lines for more than two decades Rhine, where top speeds will be 200km/h, Ulm-Augsburg project, which avoids some
now, and by the beginning of 2008, the along with tunnelling through some hills to built-up areas on the south side of Stuttgart
network of new (NBS) and upgraded (ABS) avoid sinuous loops on the river. The new by going underground. The section at the
high-speed lines extended to 1,334km. stretches will have a maximum speed of northern end of the line comprises part of
However, DB Netz AG are not stopping 250km/h. The most ambitious part of the the Stuttgart 21 project, and 33km out of
there. DB Netz has plans to add more than project is the Katzenberg tunnel, on the this 57km stretch will be in 16 tunnels.
1,000 km to the high-speed network by approach to Basel, which is due to be There will be gradients of up to 3.1% on
2020. This massive programme will cost an finished by the end of 2011. The whole line the 91km stretch south of Stuttgart.
estimated €18 billion for the infrastructure should be ready in December 2016.
alone whilst new rolling stock to run on the Viaducts and bridges will be the main Investment for the future
new lines will be at extra costs. features of the Erfurt – Leipzig / Halle line. The Deutsche Bahn high-speed network
Table 1 shows the principal projects The 122km total length of the line will will be extended by approximately
planned for this 12-year programme. include 14.4km on six viaducts. There will 1,060km over the next 12 years. This
be three tunnels, comprising 15.4km in programme is a major prerequisite for the
Feats of engineering length. When it opens in December 2015, success of DB AG and for the ongoing
The proposed line from Ludwigshafen to the new route will cut 46 minutes from the integration of the European high-speed
Saarbrücken is interesting as it links into journey time between Erfurt and Halle. rail network.
Table 1: New (NBS) and upgraded (ABS) high-speed lines planned in Germany. Status numbers 4, 8, 9 and 10 are being
planned, all others are under construction
NBS / ABS Maximum Speed (km/h) Length (km) Estimated Inauguration
1. ABS Emmerich-Oberhausen 160-200 72 After 2010
2. ABS Saarbrücken- Ludwigshafen 160-200 128 2010/2013
3. Südkreuz -Blankenfelde - - 2011
Umbau / Grunderneuerung Ostkreuz
Flughafenanbindung Berlin –
Brandenburg International
4. ABS/NBS Hanau-Nantenbach 140 8 2014
5. VDE 8.2 NBS Erfurt – Leipzig /Halle 300 122 2015
6. ABS/NBS Karlsruhe-Basel ABS 200 190 2016
NBS 250
7. VDE 8.1 ABS/NBS Nürnberg –Erfurt ABS 230 ABS122 ABS 2017
NBS 300 NBS 96 NBS 2035
8. NBS Rhein/Main – Rhein/Neckar 300 81 2018
9. Stuttgart 21/NBS Wendlingen-Ulm 200/250 148 2019
10. NBS Hannover-Bremen/Hamburg (Y) 160/300 92 After 2015
TOTAL 1059
Source: Lecture UIC High-Speed-Congress
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