Leipzig–Geithain electrification worth around €250m in planning

The roughly 44 km Leipzig–Geithain railway line in Saxony, currently not electrified, is planned to be electrified throughout, with the Bad Lausick–Geithain section also getting a second track. A funding agreement to start the planning phase has been in place since July 2024; total project costs are estimated at around EUR 250 million. The tracker list gives a planned completion/opening date of 2035; earlier sources only vaguely cited "at least eight years" from the 2014 preliminary design stage. Update (14 Jan 2026): At the third rail talks on 13 January 2026 the state of Saxony and DB InfraGO named neither a start nor a completion date for the sections of the Leipzig–Chemnitz line. According to Bahninitiative Chemnitz and PRO BAHN, a variant with partly single-track sections is being examined for the northern section, apparently to cut costs; full double track had been the goal until now. (LOK Report, 14 Jan 2026) Update (17 Jun 2026): A feasibility study initiated by Saxony and commissioned from DB InfraGO proposes double-tracking about 24 of the 44 km of the northern section (about EUR 531 million); electrification is put at about EUR 149 million, giving roughly EUR 680 million in total. The study followed a February 2026 DB InfraGO cost indication of EUR 1.32 billion for full double-tracking (the Bahninitiative Chemnitz had earlier cited about EUR 500 million as originally promised). Double-tracking is to be funded through the Coal Regions Investment Act and electrification through GVFG funding; full financing depends on federal involvement, and a reliable timetable will only follow after preliminary planning. The Bahninitiative Chemnitz, PRO BAHN and the Industrieverein Sachsen 1828 criticise the scaled-back variant because long stretches stay single-track and a half-hourly service is planned only at peak times (LOK Report, 17 Jun 2026; earlier reports 16 Apr and 18 Jun 2026).