DB to spend €28bn on infrastructure in 2015-19

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DB to spend €28bn on infrastructure in 2015-19

GERMAN Rail (DB) board member for infrastructure and services Dr Volker Kefer has unveiled details of plans to spend a minimum of €28bn over the next four years on maintenance and investment in Germany's mainline rail network.

Under a financing agreement concluded last month, the federal government will contribute €20bn through the so-called Performance and Financing Agreement 2 (LuFV2) which will come from the federal budget and DB's dividend payments to the federal government.

DB will provide the remaining €8bn (equivalent to €1.6bn per year) from its own resources.

LuFV2 therefore provides a 22% increase in funding compared with LuFV1, which covered the period 2009-14.

"The increase in funding is essential to ensure high performance and future-proof our rail infrastructure," Kefer says. "This is the largest modernisation programme in the network's history. Such a large volume of work needs to be well-planned and we have been preparing for this since 2012."

Key projects for 2015 include:

[*]Major renewals on the Berlin S-Bahn North-South Line between January and May
[*]Track renewals on the Hannover – Göttingen high-speed line, with long-distance services diverted via the conventional line during May
[*]Track renewals on 44km of the Cologne – Frankfurt high-speed line, requiring four weekend closures between mid-April and mid-May
[*]Renewal of 22km of track on the Cologne – Aachen line, including the remodelling of Langerwehe station and 35km of renewals between Hennef and Au on the Cologne – Siegen line
[*]Substructure renewals on a 10km stretch of the Nuremberg – Ansbach line between Rosstal and Wicklesgreuth, and
[*]Upgrading of the Ingolstadt – Munich line for 200km/h operation.

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Deutsche Bahn gaat de komende vijf jaar 28 miljard euro uitgeven aan de infrastructuur in Duitsland. Het betreft onderhoud en aanleg.

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We krijgen dus in mei weekeinden waar Keulen-Frankfurt en Hannover-Göttingen dicht zijn? Dat worden leuke dienstregelingen...

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Wellicht het einde voor de Duitse armseinen?

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Er verdwijnen er wel steeds meer maar voordat die allemaal zijn opgeruimd ben je nog wel wat jaren verder lijkt mij.