Dresden‒Prague high-speed line
The Dresden‒Prague high-speed line is a series of upgrades to reduce the train travel time by one hour between Dresden, Germany and Prague, Czech Republic, scheduled for construction after 2032.[1]
The main component is a planned 30.4-kilometre-long (18.9 mi) Ore Mountains Tunnel (Erzgebirgstunnel, Krušnohorský tunel) twin-bore base tunnel running north‒south under the Ore Mountains between Heidenau station near Dresden and the town of Chabařovice near Ústí nad Labem main railway station, creating a 46-kilometre-long (29 mi) bypass to the existing Elbe Valley section of the Děčín–Dresden-Neustadt railway.[2]
The new route forms part of the Orient/East–Med Corridor in the European Union's Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Rothe, Michael (2023-11-23). "New Dresden-Prague line: Germany's longest railroad tunnel to be built in the Ore Mountains". Wirtschaft in Sachsen. Sächsische Zeitung. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
- ^ Newton, Jonathan (2023-11-29). "Germany to build its longest rail tunnel to connect Dresden and Prague". International Railway Journal. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
The twin-bore 30.4km Erzgebirgs Tunnel through the Erz mountains … will be built between Heidenau, Germany, and Ústí nad Labem … almost three times as long as the Landrücken Tunnel, which is currently Germany's longest, and about one and a half times the length of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel currently under construction.
- ^ Raimondi, Marco (2023-11-22). "DB presents project for Germany's longest rail tunnel to Czechia". Railfreight. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
2032 and is estimated to take about 12 years.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Visualisierung der DB-Neubaustrecke Dresden‒Prag: Planungsergebnisse anschaulich erklärt [Visualization of the new DB line Dresden‒Prague: Planning results clearly explained]. Neubaustrecke Dresden–Prag (in German). 2025-01-05 – via Youtube.
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