Building the Rastatt Tunnel

A tunnel is to be produced in Rastatt after all in conjunction with the 4-track upgrading of the Rheintal railway. It will undercut the entire bounds of the city as well as the Federbach lowland area with a length of 4,270 m designed to cope with speeds of up to 250 km/h. The tunnel is part of plan approval section 1.2 of the new and upgraded Karlsruhe-Basle route. Building permission for this section has existed since August 11, 1998. Currently the Federal Railway Authority is dealing with an alteration to the plan – basically for new regulations governing tunnel safety as well as producing...