DB lists two major rail traffic corridors for improvements
Germany's so-called high-density network 2022, DB AG / Volker Emersleben
Deutsche Bahn (DB) has named the railway corridors Hamburg-Berlin and Emmerich-Oberhausen as the two sites where it will carry out major improvement works from late 2024 onwards. The overhaul is part of DB’s ongoing project to renovate Germany’s high-intensity railways, meaning the lines with the highest passenger numbers and freight volumes.
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Corridor, by corridor, yes, but including a decisive, an offensive shift!
(“Improving” is defensive, will “cement”, at standards, no longer optimal.)
Neither, a track standard, calling for “optimal maintenance”, by definition no longer is an optimal standard!
(With 80 % dynamic extra, an equal “tara” is added, corresponding SWL- and pay load, is reduced…)
At added utilisation, bonus will be added capacity, etc., etc.
(All other modes upgrade, for added load capacity and for lower costs.)