Germany's Deutsche Bahn is planning a freight train tunnel that bypasses the railway operation around the city of Fürth. The tunnel is the central building of a new 14 kilometers long freight traffic route between Nuremberg and Eltersdorf. The tunnel will protect the residents from freight traffic noise and relieve the passenger rail traffic of freight trains.

The tunnel has more or less a 12 meter diameter inside and run at a depth of 30 meters below ground. The freight trains will be moving at speeds up to 120 kilometers per hour.

DB says the train rail freight transport is much more environmentally friendly to that of ship and trucks. While a truck around 112 g Greenhouse gas emissions per tonne and kilometers produced, and a ship 31g, an average DB freight train Only 19 g greenhouse gases per tonne and kilometers, 5 times less than a truck, says DB.

A freight-train tunnel around Fürth has been in the talks for maybe more than 10 years. But never before it became so close to implementation. The German railway company DB has accelerated the work to get the plans approved. In this scope, DB held an information meeting with the citizens in the evening of 24 April.

In the evening, the DB project team, together with the responsible specialist planners answer any questions of the citizens regarding the topics of general planning, required areas, environmental protection, sound and vibration Protection, construction logistics etc. According to information, the project teams is close to finishing the documentation to apply for planning approval of the project. One important piece of information, an important parameter, the construction cost, has not yet been released.

Information and visuals used in this post from DB project site, mediathek

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