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Stuttgart (dpa) - The electrification of the southern line between Ulm, Friedrichshafen and Lindau on Lake Constance is entering the final phase.
From March 7th, the final track work and adjustments in the signal boxes are to be carried out, as the Deutsche Bahn announced on Tuesday in Stuttgart.
The line between Aulendorf (Ravensburg district) and Ravensburg, for which train traffic is to be blocked again, is affected by April 1.
Express buses should fill the gap.
From April 6th to 30th, the work will move on to the Ravensburg-Friedrichshafen section, where a rail replacement service will also be used for passengers between Upper Swabia and Lake Constance.
Then the commissioning of the southern runway will be prepared, for example with acceptance tests and test drives.
Electrification began in March 2018.
It should be completed in December of this year.
The cost of the project is estimated at around 300 million euros.
Thanks to electrification, trains should travel at speeds of up to 160 kilometers per hour, passengers no longer have to change trains between Lake Constance and Stuttgart, and connections to international passenger and freight transport in Lindau and Bregenz are to be improved.
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