Upgraded line
Existing road and railway lines are designated as upgraded routes by politicians , which were subsequently upgraded for higher speeds or higher capacity as part of modernization measures. As a result of the measures, the routes are often straightened through line improvements and as many intersections as possible are rebuilt according to plan . Expanded routes on motorways have at least three - sometimes four - continuous lanes in each direction of travel .
If the permissible line speed is increased to more than 160 km / h on upgraded railway lines (ABS), the following requirements must be met according to the provisions of the railway building and operating regulations:
- Replacement of level crossings ( level crossings , platform accesses) with bridges ,
- Marking of the areas to be kept clear during train journeys on platforms on continuous main tracks; At speeds of more than 200 km / h, further precautions must be taken to secure travelers,
- Installation of a continuous train control system such as the linear train control system (LZB) or the European Train Control System (ETCS).
Germany
Examples of recently upgraded railway lines in Germany, sorted by speed:
- Cologne – Düren (250 km / h, section of the connection to Brussels and Paris)
- Berlin – Hamburg (230 km / h)
- Cologne – Düsseldorf – Duisburg (200 km / h)
- Hanover - Wolfsburg (200 km / h, section of the high-speed line Hanover-Berlin )
- Ingolstadt – Munich (200 km / h, continuation of the new Nuremberg – Ingolstadt line )
- Frankfurt-Mannheim (200 km / h)
history
After extensive trials and test drives, the former Deutsche Bundesbahn pushed ahead with the expansion of routes for 200 km / h in the 1970s and 1980s. These were all on sections that were regularly used by the intercity trains introduced in 1971 , whose network was reduced in 1979 from the previous two-hour service to one hourly service. When the timetable changed in May 1981, high-speed sections with a total length of 256.3 kilometers were available:
- Lengerich (Westf.) - Sudmühle (22.6 km, Osnabrück – Münster route , since 1981)
- Munich-Lochhausen - Augsburg-Hochzoll (42.7 km, Munich-Augsburg route , since 1977, individual trains from 1965)
- Augsburg-Oberhausen - Bäumenheim (32.8 km, Augsburg – Nördlingen railway line , since 1978–81)
- Sprötze - Lauenbrück (19.5 km, Hamburg – Bremen route , since 1978–84)
- Uelzen - Langenhagen (81.4 km, Hanover – Hamburg route , since 1978–84)
- Brackwede - Hamm (Westf) (57.4 km, Hanover – Dortmund route , since 1980)
Switzerland
Examples of ABS in Switzerland:
- Extension of the Solothurn – Wanzwil line , branching off the new Mattstetten – Rothrist line (140 and 200 km / h)
- Connecting curve (former war loop) from (Bern–) Rothrist to Zofingen (–Luzern)
- Gorgier - St-Aubin - Onnens - Bonvillars , on the south foot of the Jura on Lake Neuchâtel
United States
- Northeast Corridor (240 km / h)
literature
- Knut Reimers, Wilhelm Linkerhägner (ed.): Paths to the future. New construction and expansion lines for the Deutsche Bundesbahn . Hestra-Verlag, Darmstadt 1987, ISBN 3-7771-0200-8 .
Individual evidence
- ^ OpenRailwayMap. Retrieved May 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Notification of new high-speed section . In: Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau , April 1981, p. 270
- ↑ DB-pressedienst, quoted in the article "Flight on rails" in the Spiegel of September 28, 1981. Retrieved on February 2, 2016 .