Leipzig City Tunnel

Leipzig City Tunnel

Tunnel route, including adjacent ground-level tracks
Overview
Line	Railway line from Leipzig Hbf to Leipzig Bayerischer Bf
Location	Leipzig
Coordinates	Northern Portal: 51°20′44″N 12°22′51″E / 51.34556°N 12.38083°E / 51.34556; 12.38083 Southern Portal: 51°19′40″N 12°22′56″E / 51.32778°N 12.38222°E / 51.32778; 12.38222
Operation
Work begun	2003
Opened	15 December 2013
Operator	DB Netz
Technical
Length	3609 m
No. of tracks	double throughout
Track gauge	1435 mm
Electrified	15 kV 16.7 Hz
Legend km km Trebnitz–Leipzig railway to Trebnitz Leipzig–Eilenburg railway to Eilenburg Leipzig Nord Leipzig-Wahren–Leipzig Hbf railway to Leipzig-Wahren & Leipzig–Großkorbetha railway to Großkorbetha Mth flying junction North flying junction Leipzig–Dresden railway to Dresden Leipzig Hauptbahnhof lower 3.6 Leipzig Hauptbahnhof Leipzig Markt 3.0 2.4 Leipzig Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof (until 2001) 1.6 Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof lower Leipzig freight ring to Leipzig-Schönefeld & Leipzig-Engelsdorf-Connewitz railway to Leipzig-Engelsdorf Leipzig MDR 0.4 Leipzig-Völkerschlachtdenkmal South flying junction 0.1 Leipzig Tabakmühle junction Leipzig-Marienbrunn Leipzig-Connewitz Leipzig–Hof railway to Hof This diagram: view talk edit

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.