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PDB 85

Construction Project
Upgrade line Leipzig/Halle-Berlin - Track renewal between Halle and Bitterfeld
Location
  • Halle/Bitterfeld
Client
  • DB Netz AG
Planning
  • Krebs + Kiefer
Investment volume
  • approx. EUR 15.0 million
Construction time
  • 2013
Contracted services for BMG
  • Construction management
  • Claim management
Structures constructed
  • Removal of sleepers and tracks on a length of 15.0 km
  • Removal of the asphalt base course
  • Establishment of the new rail track as so-called non-ballasted track
  • Assembly of the rails on pre-fabricated concrete slabs
Special features
  • Work around the clock, including on public holidays and weekends
  • 11 bridge constructions
  • 13 points
Utilization
  • Part of the ICE route Munich-Halle-Berlin
  • Design speed after conclusion of the measure 160 km/h
  • This will be followed by expansion for design speed of 200 km/h
Construction
  • Frost protection layer (d = 50 cm)
  • Hydraulically bound base course (d = 30 cm)
  • Grouting made of cement mortar (d = 30 cm)
  • Transversely pre-stressed prefabricated slab made of concrete C 45/55 (W/L/H = 2.55/6.45/0.20 m)
  • Longitudinal coupling via GEWI steel
  • Rail fastening with 10 support points per rail on a prefabricated slab
  • Rail UIC 60