Renovation
Train: Replacement traffic between Hamburg and Berlin runs stable
The route between Hamburg and Berlin has been closed since Friday evening. Now the dismantling of cables and signals begins. There is replacement traffic by bus. What the train says.
Due to the nine-month renovation of the important Hamburg-Berlin railway line, passengers in regional traffic are dependent on buses. The replacement traffic with a total of 170 vehicles on 28 lines run stable, the train said. Together with the provider Ecovista, own employees will be on the road in the next few days to record and re -enact information.
Long -distance traffic also runs according to schedule. The ICE and IC trains have been diverted via Stendal and Uelzen since Friday evening. You drive less frequently and take around 45 minutes longer than usual.
In the meantime, construction work started on the blocked railway line. First of all, cables and switch drives were dismantled and magnets were removed for the control of the signals, the railway continued. “Sails, thresholds and gravel bring construction trains from the approximately 130 construction site surfaces along the route to the places where the material is needed.”
One of more than 40 corridor renovations
The route is to be completely renovated during the nine -month construction work. Tailors, signal boxes, overhead lines and train stations are renewed and modernized. Hamburg-Berlin is one of more than 40 so-called corridor renovations, with which the railway will gradually bring its overloaded and Marodes route network up to date.
Commuters in Brandenburg, which are dependent on regional traffic between Berlin and Wittenberge, are also affected. Specifically, this means, for example, that the journey from Wittenberge in northwestern Brandenburg to Berlin’s main train station will no longer take an hour and a half – as usual with the RE8 – but three and a half hours.
Most regional train lines end from Berlin at the latest at Wustermark train station. From and to Wittenberge only run replacement buses. You usually only drive every half hour or hour. In addition, they are mostly on the road than a regional train that would otherwise be on the track.
dpa
Source: Stern
