Deutsche Bahn has launched a multibillion euros program to rehabilitate their infrastructure. According to Volker Kefer, DB board member, Deutsche Bahn plans to spend a minimum of EU28bn over the next four years on maintenance and investment in the rail network. “This is the biggest modernization program that has ever existed for the German railway network”, Kefer says.
At the beginning of 2015, DB will invest EUR 5.3 billion in the renovation of 3,800 kilometers of track, 2000 turnouts in and 2.5 million railway sleepers. In addition, four million tonnes of gravel to be replaced in the track beds. In modernization and repair of 125 nationwide railway bridges, the company also put several hundred million euros. A total of around three billion euros will be invested in a total of 875 bridges to 2019. For signaling and control systems, signal boxes and security systems that track total spends four billion, in the rehabilitation of tunnels runs a billion.
Major renewals on the Berlin S-Bahn North-South Line between January and May, track renewals on the Hannover – Göttingen high-speed line, track renewals on 44km of the Cologne – Frankfurt high-speed line and upgrading of the Ingolstadt – Munich line for 200km/h operation are among the key projects for 2015.
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