Deutsche Bahn (DB), the federal government and federal states will spend 13.6 billion euros in 2022 to modernize and update Germany's rail infrastructure, an increase of 0.9 billion euros compared to 2021. The work will include updating about 1,800 kilometers of track, 2,000 switches, 140 bridges and 800 stations, aiming to increase capacity and improve efficiency.

DB said it would advance its digitalisation project, focusing on work on the Stuttgart digital node and the Scandinavia-Mediterranean corridor, from Hamburg via Erfurt and Munich to the Austrian border near Kufstein. The promotion of the use of ETCS in the domestic network will also continue, and the first digital interlocking system on the high-speed line will start operating in Donauwörth. The 59.6 km/h 250 km/h high-speed line between Windlingen and Ulm will also start operations at the end of 2022 as planned, after tests of the new line begin in 2021.

Other capacity-increasing projects highlighted by DB include:

Expansion and construction of the Karlsruhe-Basel line, four-track extension, line speed increased to 250 km/h, construction of a second tunnel under the city center to ease the existing route of the Munich S-Bahn main line, Angermünde – Track doubling and continuous electrification of the Polish border to the Czecin line, the track doubling and extension between Weddel and Fallersleben on the Brunswick-Wolfsburg line, construction between Hamburg and Bad Oldesloh A new S-Bhan line 4, bridge works, track replacement and superstructure works between Demmin and Stralsund (Berlin Nord Railway), three-track extension between Oberhausen and Emmerich and the Dutch border, Cologne Extensive expansion measures between Dortmund and Dortmund, increasing production capacity and building electronic interlocks in Gernhausen, reconstruction of the Eifel and Ahr Valley railways after the flood, and expansion and construction of new infrastructure in Saxony-Frankenia The Magistrale line runs at a speed of 160 km/h. Keywords: engineering construction, engineering news

DB Chief Infrastructure Officer Mr Ronald Pofalla said 4800 engineers and specialists were also recruited to support capital expansion projects and maintenance. The Wendlingen–Ulm high-speed line is one of 20 IRJ projects to watch in 2022.EditorXingWentao