New Pforzheim railway tunnel enters service
- Location
- Pforzheim / Ispringen, Baden-Württemberg · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Project
- Pforzheim Tunnel (new railway tunnel, Karlsruhe–Mühlacker line)
- Investment
- approx. EUR 100 million
- Status
- Completed / in operation since 2018-09-10
The new 909-metre, double-track railway tunnel between Pforzheim Hauptbahnhof and Ispringen (on the Karlsruhe–Mühlacker–Stuttgart line) went into operation on schedule on 10 September 2018, replacing the more than 150-year-old original tunnel (built 1858–1860), which needed renovation. Construction began in 2015 with an investment of about EUR 100 million, using roughly 18,000 m³ of concrete and 1,600 tonnes of steel for the interior. The old tunnel was subsequently backfilled.
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