Next year DB Networks plans to renew more than 3000km of track, 2350 switches and crossings, two million sleepers, and four million tonnes of ballast across its 34,000 route-km network. DB says it is looking to coordinate projects on specific routes in order to minimise disruption to traffic.
Key projects for 2014 include:
- infrastructure works on the Hamburg – Hannover line, including the completion of the third track on the Stelle – Lüneburg section
- refurbishment of the original Schlüchtern tunnel on the Frankfurt – Fulda line
- bridge refurbishment between Rosenheim and Salzburg
- track and platform renewal on the Graben-Neudorf – Karlsruhe Hagsfeld section of the Mannheim – Karlsruhe line, requiring a blockade between July 31 and September 15
- upgrading of the Munich – Ingolstadt line for 200km/h operation, and
- remodelling and refurbishment of the long-distance platforms (platforms 10-15) at Leipzig Main Station.
