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Bahn wants to invest four billion euros
Lines are to be electrified, especially in the north and east of Bavaria.
Deutsche Bahn, together with the federal government and the Free State of Bavaria, intends to invest around four billion euros in the expansion of the infrastructure in the north and east of Bavaria over the next ten to 15 years. “So that we can get better, we have to build a lot, a lot,” said project manager Matthias Trykowski on Wednesday in Nuremberg. Among other things, the hitherto “largest diesel island in Germany” between Hof and Regensburg in eastern Bavaria is to be eliminated by electrifying around 500 kilometers of the route. On the one hand, this includes the electrification of the east-west connections from Nuremberg via Marktredwitz and Schirnding to the Czech Republic and from Nuremberg via Schwandorf and Furth im Wald to the neighboring country.
In addition, with the electrification of the so-called east corridor from Hof to Regensburg, another powerful north-south connection is to be created. This should also be available for freight traffic – also to relieve the road from heavy traffic, said Trykowski. Longer freight trains with a total length of 740 meters are to be used more and more for this purpose. For this purpose, several overtaking lanes of this length will be built so that the slow freight trains do not hold up the faster passenger trains.
In local transport, the Nuremberg S-Bahn will be extended by 60 kilometers and 20 stations to the east. The improvement in local transport also includes noise protection and barrier-free train stations. A total of 70 new railway bridges are to be built in Bavaria – from the pedestrian underpass to the valley bridge – and 90 kilometers of overhead lines replaced, for example between Würzburg and Kitzingen.
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