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Railway lines in Saxony-Anhalt
Railway lines in Saxony
|} The Nuremberg-Erfurt high-speed rail line is a 190 km-long German high-speed railway, currently under construction, between Nuremberg and Erfurt. It consists of an upgraded line between Nuremberg and Ebensfeld and a new line between Ebensfeld and Erfurt. Parts of the new line have been under construction since 1996.
The line listed in the Germany's federal transport plan as German Unity rail project no 8.1 and is a section of the high-speed route between Berlin and Munich and a section of the line connecting Italy and Scandinavia in the European Union’s Trans-European Networks. (14.4 MB It connects in the north to the Erfurt-Leipzig/Halle high-speed rail line and in the south to the Nuremberg-Munich high-speed rail line. After completion of all the new lines the travel time from Munich to Berlin will fall to under four hours.
The line is to be used by fast long-distance passenger trains (ICEs) and freight trains. Construction commenced in April 1996; three years later construction was stopped by the new red-green coalition government formed after the 1998 election and only recommenced in 2002. In December 2008, the Federal Transport Minister, Wolfgang Tiefensee announced additional funding for the project to enable it to be completed by 2016,<ref name="fw-2008-12-03"></ref> compared to the original planned opening in 2004/05.<ref name="np-coburg-2007-10-02"></ref>
The total cost of the project is currently estimated to be €5.1 billion;<ref name="np-coburg-2007-09-01"></ref> in the 1990s it was estimated to be €3.75 billion. Costs have increased due to inflation and because additional infrastructure is now required. Total expenditure on the line until the end of 2007 was €833 million.<ref name="bmvbs-vde-2008"></ref>
The project is being managed by DB ProjektBau, a subsidiary Deutsche Bahn.
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The Wolfsburg-Berlin section was built as a new line and runs largely parallel to the Lehrterbahn (the old Berlin-Hanover railway) opened in 1871. The whole line was opened officially on 15 September 1998 and has been in commercial service since 20 September 1998.
The overall Hanover-Berlin project (including the reorganization and upgrading of the Lehrterbahn) was carried out as German unity rail project no 4 of the federal transport plan.
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