Leipzig City Tunnel
railway tunnel in Germany
The City Tunnel is a twin-bore railway tunnel for the city-centre S-Bahn in Leipzig. It links Leipzig Hauptbahnhof with the central Markt station, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz station and Bayerischer Bahnhof.
Construction began in July 2003. The first bore was structurally completed in March 2008, the second in October 2008. The tunnel and new tracks linking it with the rest of the network were opened for commercial service on 15 December 2013, the date of the timetable change in December 2013.
Route
From South to North
Leipzig MDR (originally Leipzig Semmelweißstraße, outside the tunnel)
Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof (platform length of 140 m)
Leipzig Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (platform length of 140 m)
Leipzig Markt (platform length of 140 m)
Leipzig Hauptbahnhof (platform length of 215 m. Option to extend in a northerly direction to a length of 400 m); 800 m long ramps
Leipzig Nord (originally Leipzig Theresienstraße, outside the tunnel)
In addition to the four underground stations of the City Tunnel, the shells of the new stations Leipzig MDR and Leipzig Nord - Berliner Brücke were completed in January 2011.
The northern ramp to the entrance of the tunnel is 600 m long and has a slope of 40 ‰
Operating schedule
It was planned that each hour and in each direction, there would be up to ten S-Bahn, two regional trains and one express (as of July 2007).
The S-Bahn network, which is in service since 15 December 2013, is operating as follows (December 2019):
All lines run with intervals of between 30 minutes and 120 minutes. Due to the high number of trains (regional trains, S-Bahn and ICE) between the main station and Leipzig-Leutzsch, since December 2013 the S1 has operated at 15-minute intervals.
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