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Region. Deutsche Bahn (DB) is renewing the tracks on the heavily frequented and therefore heavily used route between Hanover and Berlin. From April 1 to May 5, the construction work will affect the long-distance trains in the direction of Berlin, and from May 6 to July 1, the trains in the direction of Hanover. DB announced this in a press release.
Timetable adjustments from April 1 to May 5: trains on the hourly ICE line Cologne/Düsseldorf-Hanover-Berlin, the bi-hourly ICE line Frankfurt-Kassel-Göttingen-Brunswick-Berlin and the IC line Amsterdam-Hannover- Berlin will be diverted in the direction of Berlin via Magdeburg (with a stop).
Travel times that are up to 60 minutes longer must be planned for. The stops in Wolfsburg, Stendal and Berlin-Spandau are omitted. The trains from Berlin in the direction of Hanover and in the direction of Göttingen run largely without restrictions. The DB sets up a shuttle service between Hanover and Stendal with a stop in Wolfsburg.
In Stendal there is a connection to RE trains to and from Berlin. The ICE Sprinter Berlin-Cologne-Bonn will be dropped in both directions during the modernization work. The ICE trains on the Stralsund-Berlin-Hanover-Cologne line only run to a limited extent on the Stralsund-Berlin Südkreuz and Hanover-Cologne sections. Deutsche Bahn recommends that all travelers inform themselves in advance about the timetable changes in the DB information and booking systems. The adjusted timetables for the first construction phase (until May 5th) are available there.
About the works
The approximately 256-kilometer high-speed line between Hanover and Berlin went into operation in 1998. Trains travel here at 250 km/h. Constant maintenance is required for safe and reliable rail traffic on the much-used east-west connection. After the DB had already renewed parts of the track and switch systems between Nennhausen and Wustermark in the past few years, this is planned for the Wustermark-Bamme section this spring. Switches are revised from the ground up and the rails are changed on more than 30 kilometers.
In Berlin, DB is also modernizing the slab track of the Berlin Stadtbahn in May and June. From May 11th to May 25th and from June 9th to July 1st, long-distance and regional traffic between Berlin Hauptbahnhof and Berlin Ostbahnhof will be interrupted. All long-distance trains continue to reach Berlin’s long-distance train stations, but sometimes the routes and start/end stations differ.
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