Hanover–Berlin high-speed railway

The Hanover–Berlin high-speed railway is a 258-kilometre (160 mi) high-speed rail line linking the German cities of Hanover and Berlin.

Hanover–Berlin high-speed railway
Overview
Native nameSchnellfahrstrecke Hannover–Berlin
Line number
  • 1730 (Hannover–Lehrte)
  • 6107 (Lehrte–Oebisfelde)
  • 6185 (Oebisfelde–Berlin-Spandau)
  • 6109 (Berlin-Spandau–Berlin Ostbf)
LocaleLower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, and Berlin, Germany
Service
Route number
  • 301
  • 349
History
Opened15 September 1998
Technical
Line length258 km (160 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification15 kV/16.7 Hz AC overhead catenary
Operating speed
  • Majority:
  • 250 km/h (155 mph)
  • Parts of the line:
  • 300 km/h (190 mph) or 200 km/h (125 mph)
Route map
0.0
 Hannover Hbf
16.1
239.3
 Lehrte
Fallersleben junction
Weddel loop from Brunswick
180.9
 Wolfsburg Hbf
~178
 Beginning of 250 km/h operations
167.3
267.9
 Oebisfelde
216.8
 Beginning of Stendal southern bypass
(105.1)
 Stendal
198.8
 End of Stendal southern bypass
Elbe bridge, Hämerten (810 m)
Havel (230 m)
170.9
 Rathenow
166.0
 Beginning of great bustard protection zone
165.6
 Bamme junction main line
148.5
 Ribbeck junction main line
148.0
 End of great bustard protection zone
(18.5)
 Berlin-Staaken
118.0
 End of 250 km/h operations
From Hamburg
112.7
18.3
 Berlin-Spandau
To Hbf (low level)
 (see Berlin Stadtbahn)
9.0
 Berlin Zoologischer Garten
5.4
 Berlin Hbf (high level), North–South mainline
0.0
 Berlin Ostbf
Source: German railway atlas

The Wolfsburg-Berlin section was built as a new line and runs largely parallel to the Lehrter Bahn (the old Berlin-Hanover railway) opened in 1871. The whole line was opened officially on 15 September 1998 and has been in commercial service since 20 September 1998.

The overall Hanover-Berlin project (including the reorganization and upgrading of the Lehrter Bahn) was carried out as German unity rail project no 4 (VDE 4) of the federal transport plan.

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