Germany’s nationwide rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) has revealed plans for the nation’s longest railway tunnel by the Ore Mountains as a part of a brand new path to the Czech Republic.
The 30km tunnel will run between Germany’s Heidenau and the Czech metropolis Usti nad Labem as a part of another path to the present rail service by the Elbe Valley.
Martin Dulig, minister for financial affairs, labour and transport in Saxony, mentioned: “The cross-border connection between Dresden and Prague is of nice significance for the entire of Europe.
“It helps to get rid of current capability restrictions in freight transport, strengthen commerce and transport routes in Europe and allow future-oriented journey.”
In accordance with plans reported on by the German press, the brand new 46km route will embody two parallel tunnel tubes by the jap Ore Mountains, lowering the time to journey between the cities of Dresden and Prague by over half the present time to only an hour.
Nonetheless, regardless of Dulig stating that the challenge was of excessive precedence for each German and Czech companions, development of the tunnel isn’t anticipated to begin till 2032 and can take round 12 years, which means it may very well be one other 20 years earlier than passengers reap the advantage of the brand new line.
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DB mentioned that it could now start opening consultations with the communities across the deliberate route to supply additional details about the plans and finalise a most well-liked choice for the challenge by the center of 2024 earlier than submitting the related paperwork to the federal authorities.
The 30km tunnel would far exceed the size of the nation’s present longest rail tunnel, the ten.8km Landrückentunnel in Hesse, and in addition transcend the Fehmarnbelt tunnel which is presently underneath development and can run round 18km.
