The southern portal of the two tubes of the Katzenberg Tunnel
Overview
Line
Karlsruhe–Basel high-speed railway
Location
Bad Bellingen and Efringen-Kirchen, Germany
Coordinates
North portal: 47°44′32″N7°33′37″E / 47.74222°N 7.56028°E / 47.74222; 7.56028 South portal: 47°39′30″N7°34′32″E / 47.65833°N 7.57556°E / 47.65833; 7.57556
Start
Bad Bellingen
End
Efringen-Kirchen
Operation
Work begun
2003
Opened
December 4, 2012 (2012-12-04)
Owner
Deutsche Bahn
Traffic
about 57 passenger trains(status: 2012) and about 160 goods trains (traffic on the existing route in 2007)
Character
2 bores
Technical
Design engineer
DB ProjektBau
Lahmeyer International
Length
9,385 m (5.832 mi)
No. of tracks
2
Track gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrified
15 kV/16.7 Hz AC overhead catenary
Operating speed
250 km/h (160 mph) (max)
Katzenberg Tunnel and attached track (red) connecting to the existing line (grey)View of the north portal (August 2012)View of the south portal tpwards Basel (July 2012). The distance between track centres is reduced by around 25 mm in the tunnel compared to the distance of 4.50m maintained on the open air sections.The ventilation structure of the eastern tunnel on the surface
The Katzenberg Tunnel is a railway tunnel on the Karlsruhe–Basel high-speed railway that opened in December 2012. The tunnel was built to increase the capacity[1] and speed of the Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway (Rhine Valley Railway, or Rheintalbahn in German) and was built to remove the freight traffic from the towns on the old line.[2] The two parallel, single-track tunnels, which can be passed at up to 250 km/h,[3] extend from Bad Bellingen to Efringen-Kirchen[1] With a length of 9,385 m,[1] it is the third longest tunnel after the Landrücken Tunnel and the Münden Tunnel and the longest twin-bore tunnel in Germany.
The reduction in journey times for long distance passenger trains between Freiburg and Basel initially amounts to two minutes.[4] After the completion of the entire section of line, the journey time will be around 15 minutes shorter.[5] At night a few freight trains and during the daytime many freight trains are routed through the Katzenberg Tunnel.[2]
The tunnel and its connection to the existing network cost a total of approximately €610 million. The line was cleared for operations by the Federal Railway Authority (Eisenbahn-Bundesamt) on 4 December 2012. The opening ceremony took place on the same day. Regular operations began on 9 December 2012.[6]
^ abcCite error: The named reference db-2006-04 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ab"Alle Güterzüge fahren durch Katzenbergtunnel". Badische Zeitung (in German). 19 October 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
^Streckenprospekt Strecke 4280, Katzenbergtunnel (in German). DB ProjektBau GmbH, Regionalbereich Südwest.
^"Eine kurze Rennbahn hinter Basel". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). 4 December 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
^"Größtes Projekt der Rheintalbahn vor Fertigstellung". Die Welt (in German). 4 July 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
^"Katzenbergtunnel: Längster Zwei-Röhren-Tunnel Deutschlands eröffnet". Badische Zeitung (in German). 4 December 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
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