Stuttgart–Augsburg new and upgraded line is a proposed

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railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

project. The 2003 federal transport plan included it as an urgent project. It includes a new high-speed line between

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; ; Swabian German, Swabian: ; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ; Italian language, Italian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city of the States of Germany, German state of ...

and

Ulm Ulm () is the sixth-largest city of the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with around 129,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 60th-largest city. Ulm is located on the eastern edges of the Swabian Jura mountain range, on the up ...

with a maximum speed of 250 km/h, parallel to the existing Stuttgart–Ulm line and an upgraded Ulm–Augsburg line with a design speed of up to 200 km/h. On 19 July 2007 it was announced by the Federal Government, the State of

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and Deutsche Bahn AG that the project had been officially approved. The estimated cost of the whole project is € 4.088 billion, with funding to be provided by

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(€ 1,469 million), Federal Government and the

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(€ 1,229 million), Baden-Württemberg (€ 824 million), Stuttgart city (€ 239 million)

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(€ 100 million) and the owners of

Stuttgart Airport Stuttgart Airport () formerly is an international airport serving Stuttgart, the capital of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is christened in honor of Stuttgart's former mayor, Manfred Rommel, son of Erwin Rommel, and is the sixth ...

(€ 100 million). The project consists of the following components: *

Stuttgart 21 Stuttgart 21 is a railway and urban development project in Stuttgart, Germany. It is a part of the Stuttgart–Augsburg new and upgraded railway and the Main Line for Europe (Paris—Vienna) within the framework of the Trans-European Networks ...

Stuttgart–Wendlingen high-speed railway The Stuttgart–Wendlingen high-speed railway is an under construction German high-speed line being built as part of the Stuttgart 21 project. It runs from Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof via the Filder Tunnel to the Filder plain and from there to the Necka ...

: replacement of the current Stuttgart terminal station by an underground through station connecting via the Filder tunnel to

. * Wendlingen-Ulm high-speed line: construction of a high-speed line through the

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, largely paralleling the A 8, and reconstruction of the Danube bridge in Ulm to carry four tracks, in place of two. *Neu-Ulm 21: replacement of the Neu-Ulm station with a new underground station (opened in March 2007, estimated cost € 160 million euro). *Upgrading of the Neu-Ulm–

Augsburg Augsburg ( , ; ; ) is a city in the Bavaria, Bavarian part of Swabia, Germany, around west of the Bavarian capital Munich. It is a College town, university town and the regional seat of the Swabia (administrative region), Swabia with a well ...

section of the Ulm–Augsburg line for speeds of up to 200 km/h. The Stuttgart–Augsburg new and upgraded line is a component of the Magistrale for Europe from

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, which is supported by the

as part of its Trans-European Networks. The European Union is providing up to 50 per cent of the planning phase of the project and is expected to fund ten per cent of its construction costs. When complete, high-speed trains will take 28 minutes between Stuttgart and Ulm and trains between Stuttgart and Munich with stops in Ulm and Augsburg will take less than one and a half hours compared to more than two hours today. This is part of

's ''Netz 21'' (network 21) concept, which envisages a reduction of the travel time between

Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the forela ...

and

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

from over three and a half today to only two and a half hours in the future. The Stuttgart-Ulm section is expected to be completed in December 2025 (as of 2010 it was expected to be completed in 2020)."Bahnprojekts Stuttgart-Ulm, Projektstatus"
(Railway project Stuttgart-Ulm, Project status) on the official website of the project. Accessed on 28 April 2023.

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