THE STUTTGART–ULM RAIL PROJECT INFORMATION CONTENTS WWW.BAHNPROJEKT-STUTTGART-ULM.DE/EN/ENGLISH/ ON THE CONSTRUCTION SITE 4–5 WHAT IS THE STUTTGART–ULM RAIL PROJECT? The latest information on all construction sites of the Stuttgart–Ulm rail project: www.bsu.link/auf-der-baustelle 6–9 THE NEW INFRASTRUCTURE MEDIA CENTRE 10 –11 TRANSPORT BENEFITS Webcams, construction site photos, films and many other media resources: www.bsu.link/media-library 12 –13 FIND OUT MORE TOURS Experience the construction site live on a variety of guided tours: Fold-out page NUMBERS, FIGURES, FACTS www.bsu.link/guided-tours 14 –15 THE NEW MAIN STATION CONTACT: Bahnprojekt Stuttgart–Ulm e.V. 16 –17 URBAN DEVELOPMENT Turmforum Im Hauptbahnhof 18 –19 WORK AND BUSINESS | PARTNERS AND FINANCING Arnulf-Klett-Platz 2 70173 Stuttgart, Germany Phone: +49 (0)711 2092 2920 20 –21 ECOLOGY Email: [email protected] www.bsu.link/turmforum-exhibition 22 –23 CONSTRUCTION METHODS AND LOGISTICS WHAT IS THE STUTTGART–ULM RAIL PROJECT? The Stuttgart–Ulm rail project encompasses available for urban development in the very heart benefit from the shorter journey times and in- Stuttgart and Baden-Württemberg as a place to live Stuttgart 21 and the new section of track between of the city. creased numbers of direct connections offered and work. More jobs and a larger population mean Wendlingen and Ulm. by the rail project. In addition, the Stuttgart–Ulm higher revenues for city and state. The Stuttgart– SHORTER JOURNEY TIMES rail project is part of the impor-tant European long- Ulm rail project is also an ecological one: surveys TWO SUB-PROJECTS, AND MORE DIRECT CONNECTIONS distance corridor from Paris to Bratislava, which have shown that Stuttgart 21 and the new section MANY ADVANTAGES is being developed into a high-speed route. of track will move millions of passenger trips from The 60-kilometre-long new section of track between the roads onto the railways every year. The sub-project Stuttgart 21 includes the rearrange- Wendlingen and Ulm will enable a fast and conveni- AN ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL ment of the Stuttgart rail hub with four new stations ent way to cross the Swabian Jura region, with over PLUS FOR BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG and 57 kilometres of new track. The terminus in half of the route running in tunnels. Stuttgart will become an efficient through station. The rail network is being optimised for modern Visit us on the internet: At the same time, Stuttgart will have a once-in-a- Numerous changes and improvements will be long-distance and regional trains, allowing national www.bsu.link/overview century opportunity to undertake extensive urban created for Stuttgart and Baden-Württemberg: and international economic regions to grow ever development: the old track system can be completely around 75 per cent of the population of Baden- closer together. A more attractive city centre and removed, making around 100 hectares of space Württemberg lives in rural districts which will better infrastructure are increasing the quality of Stuttgart Airport Albvorland Albaufstieg Albhochfläche Albabstieg Ulm 4 5 THE NEW INFRASTRUCTURE STUTTGART 21: FOUR STATIONS AND predominantly underground railway ring. New There are three critical reasons for this: set for 49 arriving trains. In addition, trains that arrive 57 KILOMETRES OF NEW TRACK holding sidings will be built on railway land in late should be able to reduce their delay on average. Untertürkheim. Arriving and departing trains will no longer get The Stuttgart 21 project goes far beyond the widely in each other’s way DB succeeded in providing this proof in one of the acclaimed conversion of Stuttgart Main Station: RAILWAY TRAFFIC FLOWING The number of platform tracks for long-distance most sophisticated railway computer simulations the entire Stuttgart rail hub will be rearranged and THROUGH AN EFFICIENT RAIL HUB and regional trains will rise from five to eight ever carried out. The renowned railway engineering expanded and passenger movements accelerated. Where the present speed limit is just 30 to office SMA and Partners monitored and investigated There will be 57 kilometres of new track for long- Most of the arriving long-distance and regional 40 km/h, trains will in future be able to arrive every single step on behalf of Deutsche Bahn and distance, regional and suburban trains as well as trains are presently guided into the main station and depart at 60 to 100 km/h the state. four new stations. via two tracks – from Bad Cannstatt and Feuerbach – which allow maximum speeds of only 30 to PROVEN PERFORMANCE AT SUBURBAN RAIL: THE NEW STATION THE NEW MAIN STATION 40 km/h in the area of points and platforms. PEAK TIMES: STRESS TEST PASSED ON MITTNACHTSTRASSE AS CENTREPIECE Many departing trains also have to cross the path of arriving trains, for which they have to briefly At the end of 2010, in the course of mediation, The regional train network is also benefiting from At the heart of the project is the new Stuttgart utilise the arrival tracks. In order to cope with the Deutsche Bahn (DB) undertook to produce detailed Stuttgart 21. The new suburban train station on Main Station. Lying at right angles to the present current volume of trains, over 50 regional trains evidence that the new main station would be able Mittnachtstrasse serves the new city district of track system, the station connects eight platform have to be slotted in between suburban trains to handle up to 30 per cent more trains during the Rosenstein and creates faster transfers between tracks and eight adjacent through tracks with every day, the latter operating at an interval of morning rush hour (7 to 8 a.m.). Taking the then Feuerbach and Bad Cannstatt. Furthermore, the around 50 sets of points. The above-ground railway one every five minutes. The resulting “jams” at benchmark of 37 arriving trains, the yardstick was suburban train tracks in this area will in future be infrastructure can be dismantled and the space the entrance to Stuttgart Main Station are there- available for use exclusively by suburban trains. made available for urban development. fore an annoyance, especially for commuters. The rail hub has long since reached its maximum Direction: OPTIMAL CONNECTION capacity under practical operating conditions Mannheim Francfort Cologne VIA A RAILWAY RING during the rush hour. The new through station Paris Direction: will have half as many platform tracks as the Nuremberg Visit us on the internet: The new main station will be connected to current terminus – and yet will be able to handle www.bsu.link/s21/infrastructure the existing network via short sections of a far more trains with fewer delays. 6 7 new holding sidings new suburban train station Untertürkheim Mittnachtstraße Stuttgart Central Station Direction: Esslingen Tübingen Direction: Ulm Airport/Trade Fair Munich Tübingen Vienna Ulm Munich Vienna Zurich THE NEW AIRPORT AND TRADE FAIR STATION: THE NEW WENDLINGEN–ULM SECTION: PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE TRANSPORT HUB IN THE FILDER AREA SHORTER JOURNEY TIME, MORE CAPACITY EXISTING SETTLEMENT STRUCTURES A new station for long-distance and regional trains unique hub will be created between rail, road and The crossing over the River Neckar at Wendlingen Over its course, the new section of track negotiates is being built in the Filder area between Stuttgart air. In future, trains of the Gäubahn railway arriving marks the beginning of the 60-km-long new section a height difference of almost 500 metres. It reaches Airport and the trade fair centre. The journey time from Zurich/Singen will call at the airport. The time of track between Wendlingen and Ulm. It links its highest point of around 750 metres above sea from Stuttgart Main Station to the airport will be needed to cover the associated detour to Stuttgart seamlessly to the high-speed track that connects level at the end of the 16-km-long Albaufstieg uphill cut from 27 to eight minutes. In future, it will be Main Station (3 km) will be offset by the high- the new Stuttgart Main Station with Wendlingen section. It then falls again by 280 vertical metres possible to travel to many parts of the country from speed tracks of Stuttgart 21. Trains coming from as part of Stuttgart 21. towards Ulm. here without the need to change trains. Zurich/Singen and continuing in the directions of Ulm/Munich and Reutlingen would be able While high-speed trains currently have to decelerate This ascent requires comparatively steep inclines In addition to the ten million or so airline passengers to bypass the entire Stuttgart basin. to 70 km/h in order to cross the Swabian Jura, they that are too steep for heavy goods trains. On the and more than a million exposition visitors each will be able to use the new track at speeds of up to other hand, the route is suitable for light and year, roughly a quarter of a million people living 250 km/h all the way to the outskirts of Ulm. The ICE medium-weight goods trains with a total weight within the catchment area of the new station are journey time of about one hour between Stuttgart of about 1,000 to 1,500 tonnes. set to benefit from it. With the new long-distance Visit us on the internet: and Ulm will be almost halved; as far as regional station and a dedicated city railway connection, a www.bsu.link/s21/airport-and-trade-fair-station trains are concerned, thejourney time of the fastest The route resulted from an intensive survey and trains – with a stop at the airport – will fall from consideration of a large number of options in the around 60 to 40 minutes.