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THE 10 PROJECT AT A GLANCE 04 THE STUTTGART–ULM RAIL PROJECT 06 INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE FUTURE 10 THE NEW MAIN STATION 14 FAST AND DIRECT TRAVEL 16 THE ROSENSTEIN QUARTER 18 BWEGT – PUBLIC TRANSPORT FOR THE FUTURE 20 AN EFFICIENT S-BAHN SERVICE FOR THE REGION 22 “DEUTSCHLANDTAKT” AND DIGITAL HUB 24 SUSTAINABILITY 26 CONSTRUCTION PROCESS AND LOGISTICS 28 FACTS AND FIGURES 0 32 FURTHER INFORMATION 34 PUBLISHING INFORMATION STUTTGART–ULM RAIL PROJECT STUTTGART–ULM RAIL PROJECT 04 05 Thanks to shorter journey times, the economic THE STUTTGART–ULM RAIL PROJECT TWO SUB-PROJECTS, centres of Stuttgart, Ulm and Munich are CONSISTS OF TWO SUB-PROJECTS: growing closer together. A HOST OF BENEFITS STUTTGART 21 AND THE NEW WENDLINGEN–ULM SECTION. The owner of the Stuttgart–Ulm Rail Project is Deutsche Bahn, which is tackling the project Around 120 kilometres of new track are together with its partners. These are: being built. THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY The Stuttgart–Ulm Rail Project will bring THE STATE OF BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG tremendous changes and improvements for THE STATE CAPITAL OF STUTTGART WHAT IS THE Stuttgart and the State of Baden-Württem- THE VERBAND REGION STUTTGART AND berg. 75 percent of people in Baden-Württem- STUTTGART AIRPORT. berg live in rural districts which will benefit from reduced journey times and a greater The project is also being funded by the Euro- number of direct connections. The Stuttgart– pean Union through the federal government. STUTTGART– Ulm Rail Project is also boosting the region’s economy. It will create thousands of new jobs. Not only during the construction period, but also beyond. The project is encouraging ULM RAIL investment and bringing money to the region. Göppingen PROJECT? FILS Geislingen NECKAR BRIDGE CANNSTATT (355 M) TUNNEL BAD CANNSTATT (3,507 M) Bad STATION Cannstatt UNTER- UNTERTÜRKHEIM ROSENSTEIN TÜRKHEIM TUNNEL TUNNEL HOLDING (1,080 M) (1,170 M) SIDINGS Untertürkheim MITTNACHTSTRASSE Obertürkheim Feuerbach S-BAHN STATION STG CITY S-BAHN TUNNEL (1,157 M) Esslingen AICHELBERG FILS FEUERBACH OBERTÜRKHEIM TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL (5,730 M) (252 M) (3,026 M) Stuttgart STUTTGART FILDER TUNNEL MAIN STATION (9,468 M) TUNNEL UNDER MERKLINGEN IMBERG A8 MOTORWAY TUNNEL TUNNEL (173 M) (394 M) (499 M) FREIGHT TRAIN Wendlingen CONNECTION am Neckar Kirchheim DANUBE unter Teck A8 MOTORWAY TUNNEL KÖRSCH BOSSLER TUNNEL FILSTAL BRIDGE (378 M) (8,806 M) (485 M) AIRPORT CURVE TUNNEL (1,547 M) DENKENDORF TUNNEL ALBVORLAND TUNNEL (768 M) (8,176 M) THIRD TRACK STATION STEINBÜHL TUNNEL WIDDERSTALL MERKLINGEN ALBABSTIEG TERMINAL STATION (4,847 M) TUNNEL REGIONAL TUNNEL (963 M) STATION* (5,940 M) OBERBOIHINGEN WENDLINGEN Filderstadt TUNNEL TUNNEL (494 M) (755 M)* Ulm Neu-Ulm Stuttgart Airport ROHR CURVE NEW LINE Nürtingen NEW LINE NEW LINE TUNNEL EXISTING LINE MOTORWAY STATION DANUBE BRIDGE UNDERPASS ULM MAIN (125 M) TUNNEL NECKAR STATION (173 M) * Wendlingen Tunnel and Merklingen regional station are not part of the project and were N 10 KM BERGHAU STUTTGART AIR- planned and financed subsequently. TUNNEL PORT LONG-DIS- (446 M) TANCE RAILWAY TUNNEL (2,207 M) Stuttgart 21 | New Wendlingen–Ulm section ITS PROJECTITS NFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE INFRAS INFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUC INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE FUTURE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE FUTURE 06 07 STUTTGART 21: FOUR STATIONS AND AROUND 57 KILOMETRES OF NEW TRACKS. The Stuttgart 21 project goes far beyond the To support Stuttgart 21, Stuttgart-Vaihingen high-profile remodelling of the main station. station is being extended into a regional The entire Stuttgart rail hub will be restruc- train station. tured. In the process, the rail network will be expanded. Around 57 kilometres of tracks are being laid for long-distance and regional trains THE NEW as well as S-Bahn traffic. In addition, four sta- MAIN STATION tions will be built as part of the project: AS THE CENTREPIECE THE MAIN STATION AS A THROUGH STATION The new Stuttgart Main Station is the centre- THE FLUGHAFEN/MESSE piece of the project. The terminus station will (AIRPORT/TRADE FAIR) STATION be converted into a through station. It will THE MITTNACHTSTRASSE lie at right angles to the present tracks at a S-BAHN STATION AND depth of about 11 metres. Around 50 points THE HOLDING SIDINGS AT will link the station’s eight platform tracks UNTERTÜRKHEIM. and eight through tracks. The new station has been designed to accommodate the doubling of passenger numbers compared to 2010. The envisaged “Deutschlandtakt” synchronized MANNHEIM, timetable will only be made possible thanks FRANKFURT, Fellbach COLOGNE, PARIS to trains being able to arrive and depart more Feuerbach SCHWÄBISCH quickly at the new station. The Stuttgart hub HALL, AALEN, Bad Cannstatt NUREMBERG will be Germany’s first digitally controlled hub. It will improve the rail service’s performance and punctuality. The above-ground tracks will HOLDING SIDINGS MITTNACHTSTRASSE S-BAHN STATION be removed when the new station is complete. STUTTGART MAIN STATION The freed-up land will be turned into a new Untertürkheim urban district: the Rosenstein Quarter. ESSLINGEN, TÜBINGEN, ULM, MUNICH, VIENNA AIRPORT/TRADE FAIR, Infrastructure for today, TÜBINGEN, ULM, MUNICH, VIENNA, ZURICH tomorrow and future generations Obertürkheim ITS PROJECTITS INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE FUTURE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE FUTURE 08 09 Merklingen regional Danube Bridge TRACKSTRACKS TO BAD TO CANNSTATT OBERTÜRKHEIM AND FILSTAL BRIDGE (485 M) railway station (125 m) TO UNTERTÜRKHEIM HOLDING SIDINGS 1000 1000 900 Ulm Main Neu-Ulm 900 Stuttgart Main Station 800 Stuttgart Airport Station station 800 700 700 600 600 500 A8 MOTORWAY 500 400 TUNNEL (378 M) 400 300 300 200 AICHELBERG WIDDERSTALL MERKLINGEN 200 FEUERBACH TUNNEL FILDER TUNNEL DENKENDORF TUNNEL ALBVORLAND TUNNEL TUNNEL BOSSLER TUNNEL STEINBÜHL TUNNEL TUNNEL TUNNEL IMBERG TUNNEL ALBABSTIEG TUNNEL 100 (3,026 M) (9,468 M) (768 M) (8,176 M) (252 M) (8,806 M) (4,847 M) (963 M) (394 M) (499 M) (5,940 M) 100 1.5 1.1 1.2 1.3 A/B 1.4 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Feuerbach Main Filder Tunnel Airport connection and Filder area to Alb Foreland Alb Ascent Alb Plateau Alb Descent Ulm feeder station Gäubahn feeder Wendlingen 2.1 A/B 2.1 C A1 A2 Wendlingen–Kirchheim Kirchheim– Ulm Danube Aichelberg Main Bridge Stuttgart 21 New Wendlingen–Ulm section Station FLOWING FLUGHAFEN/MESSE RAILWAY TRAFFIC (AIRPORT/TRADE FAIR) STATION: THE NEW TRAFFIC HUB The through station will have half as many platform tracks as the old terminus station. And yet, it will be able to handle more trains with fewer delays. A new station for long-distance and regional trains is being built between Stuttgart Airport THERE ARE THREE KEY REASONS FOR THIS: and the trade fair centre. Journey times from Trains entering and leaving the station will there to the main station in the city centre will no longer get in each other’s way. be reduced from 27 to 8 minutes. In future, it The number of incoming/outgoing tracks will also be possible to reach most regions of NEW WENDLINGEN– for long-distance and regional trains will rise Baden-Württemberg from the airport station from five to eight. without the need to change trains. ULM SECTION: In future, trains will be able to arrive and depart at 60 to 100 kilometres per hour. The present THIS WILL BENEFIT REDUCED JOURNEY speed limit is 30 to 40 kilometres per hour. ten million airline passengers per year, more than a million trade fair visitors TIMES, MORE A predominately underground railway ring will per year and connect the new station to the existing network. a quarter of a million people in the catchment CAPACITY Filstal Bridge New holding sidings will be built on railway area of the new station. at Mühlhausen premises in Untertürkheim. With the long-distance bus station and a light rail connection, a traffic hub will be created between rail, road and airspace. THE RAILWAY CROSSES THE RIVER NECKAR to 70 kilometres per hour on some sections AT WENDLINGEN. THIS IS WHERE THE NEW of the old line in order to cross the Swabian 60 KILOMETRE-LONG SECTION TO ULM BEGINS. Jura. In contrast, they will be able to travel at S-BAHN: THE NEW speeds of up to 250 kilometres per hour on MITTNACHTSTRASSE It connects directly to the high-speed line from the new line. Stuttgart to Wendlingen which is being STATION constructed as part of Stuttgart 21. Most of At present, the ICE from Stuttgart to Ulm takes the route to Ulm runs parallel to the A8 approximately an hour. In future, this will be The S-Bahn will also benefit from Stuttgart 21. motorway. Where this is not possible, the roughly halved. Journey times for regional Currently, it has to share the tracks with regional route passes through five long tunnels. trains will also be reduced from 60 to around trains. In future, these lines will be used exclusively 41 minutes. This includes stops at the airport by S-Bahn trains. Furthermore, the new Mittnacht- At around 85 metres, one of the highest and the new station in Merklingen. The new strasse S-Bahn station will serve the Rosenstein railway bridges in Germany is also being line will relieve the existing railway line. Quarter. It will also enable faster transfers between constructed in the Filstal valley at Mühl- Capacity will be freed up for regional trains Feuerbach and Bad Cannstatt.