Eurotrack: Deutsche BahnAll entries on Deutsche Bahn across all areas, newest first.tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:en:en/companies/deutsche-bahn2026-07-06T06:00:00ZEurotrack🏠DB builds Hall 1 at Cottbus ICE depot, 1,200 jobs at full capacity (Germany)tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:6b2fc5dc:en2026-07-06T06:00:00ZDB is extending its ICE maintenance depot in Cottbus with Hall 1, over 500 m long (ground-breaking March 2024); at full capacity it creates 1,200 additional industrial and training jobs, and about 700 people work at the depot today. The hall triples overhaul capacity for the ICE 4, and heavy IS 700 maintenance there is to take about three weeks, roughly half the time at other sites. Structural completion is planned for the end of 2026 and the first train is due in February 2027. At the eighth meeting of the task force on 6 July 2026 the schedule was reported as on track; double-tracking of Lübbenau–Cottbus is due to start in December 2026. (LOK Report, 6 Jul 2026; second source: Deutsche Bahn, 6 Jul 2026) — Sources: https://www.lok-report.de/news/deutschland/aus-den-laendern/brandenburg-task-force-bahnstandort-cottbus-kommt-zum-achten-mal-zusammen.html · https://www.lok-report.de/news/deutschland/aus-den-laendern/65438-brandenburg-wartung-von-ice-4-ab-februar-2027-in-cottbus.html · https://www.lok-report.de/news/deutschland/aus-den-laendern/64328-brandenburg-helikopter-setzt-am-12-januar-oberleitungsmasten-am-hauptbahnhof-zum-projekt-neues-werk-cottbus.html · https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/presse/presse-regional/pr-berlin-de/aktuell/presseinformationen/Endspurt-beim-groessten-ICE-Instandhaltungswerk-der-DB-Halle-1-nimmt-Anfang-2027-Betrieb-auf-Task-Force-sieht-weitere-Staerkung-der-Lausitz--13963390🌍 Georgia opens new Khashuri–Zestaponi line to traffic (Georgien)tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:7dd1ba23:en2025-12-24T06:00:00ZPassenger and freight trains have been running on the new mountain-pass line between Khashuri and Zestaponi since 24 Dec 2025, initially in test operation. The project (about GEL 1 billion or EUR 320 million, roughly 40 km with 6 tunnels, 10 bridges and an 8,300 m tunnel) lifts capacity from 27 to 48 million tonnes; technical supervision was provided by the ILF and DB consortium. The railway next plans a link to the port of Anaklia (LOK Report, 29 Dec 2025) — Source: https://www.lok-report.de/news/uebersee/64138-georgien-testfahrten-auf-der-neubaustrecke-chasuri-zestaponi.html🌍 DB and Siemens take part in Egypt’s high-speed rail network (Ägypten)tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:0013be1a:en2025-12-05T06:00:00ZEgypt’s National Authority for Tunnels signed the 15-year operating contract for the high-speed network with DB International Operations and Elsewedy Electric on 14 Nov 2025; the single-digit-billion-euro order had already been awarded in 2022. On 10 Nov 2025 Siemens Mobility showed the Velaro in Cairo for the first time and the Desiro HC ran its maiden trip, and Siemens will maintain the fleet for 15 years. The article gives no completion date for the network; the date is the publication of the latest report (LOK Report, 5 Dec 2025) — Sources: https://www.lok-report.de/news/uebersee/63579-aegypten-tunnelbehoerde-db-international-operations-und-elsewedy-electric-unterzeichnen-vertrag-ueber-die-verwaltung-und-den-betrieb-des-elektrischen-schnellbahnnetzes.html · https://www.lok-report.de/news/uebersee/62967-aegypten-siemens-praesentiert-velaro-hochgeschwindigkeitszug-auf-der-transmea-2025-in-kairo.html🏠DB takes over LEAG training workshop in Jänschwalde with 300 trainees (Germany)tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:6a1c4583:en2025-10-30T06:00:00ZOn 30 October 2025 DB took over LEAG's recently modernised training workshop in Jänschwalde, part of a cooperation agreed in 2020 between the two groups to support structural change in Lusatia. More than 300 apprentices train there, rising to 310 in 2026 and 350 for the 2027 intake, and they are meant to work at the Cottbus ICE depot among other places. At more than 5,700 m² it is the largest training workshop in the region, and apprentices from other Lusatian firms train there too. (LOK Report, 30 Oct 2025) Update (30 October 2025): Deutsche Bahn has formally taken over LEAG's training workshop in Jänschwalde. (LOK Report, 30 October 2025) — Source: https://www.lok-report.de/news/deutschland/aus-den-laendern/62658-brandenburg-bahn-uebernimmt-ausbildungswerkstatt-in-jaenschwalde.html🏠DB invests about EUR 250 million in ICE City and DB Campus in Erfurt (Germany)tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:3b403529:en2025-10-14T06:00:00ZConstruction of ICE City began on 14 October 2025 on the former freight yard in Erfurt, a roughly 30-hectare district east of the main station. DB is putting around EUR 250 million into the scheme, about EUR 110 million of it for the DB Campus; plans include two office buildings for some 1,500 staff, a storage and welfare building for DB InfraGO, a guest house for 300 people and a neighbourhood car park. The six-storey timber-hybrid Haus 1 is due in September 2027 and the central campus building by 2029; new jobs are not quantified (LOK Report, 4 Sep 2026; construction start 14 Oct 2025). — Sources: https://www.lok-report.de/news/deutschland/aus-den-laendern/thueringen-ice-city-erfurt-und-db-campus-nehmen-gestalt-an.html · https://www.lok-report.de/news/deutschland/aus-den-laendern/62235-thueringen-baubeginn-fuer-ice-city-in-erfurt.html