page_title: Katzenberg Tunnel
hierarchical_section_title: Katzenberg Tunnel
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Blick von der Baustelleneinrichtungsfläche aufs SüdportalEnglish: View of the southern portal of the two tubes of the Katzenberg Tunnel from the construction yard
context_page_description: The Katzenberg Tunnel is a railway tunnel on the Karlsruhe–Basel high-speed railway that opened in December 2012. The tunnel was built to increase the capacity and speed of the Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway and was built to remove the freight traffic from the towns on the old line. The two parallel, single-track tunnels, which can be passed at up to 250 km/h, extend from Bad Bellingen to Efringen-Kirchen With a length of 9,385 m, it is the third longest tunnel after the Landrücken Tunnel and the Münden Tunnel and the longest twin-bore tunnel in Germany.
  The reduction in journey times for long distance passenger trains between Freiburg and Basel initially amounts to two minutes. After the completion of the entire section of line, the journey time will be around 15 minutes shorter. At night a few freight trains and during the daytime many freight trains are routed through the Katzenberg Tunnel.
  The tunnel and its connection to the existing network cost a total of approximately €610 million. The line was cleared for operations by the Federal Railway Authority on 4 December 2012. The opening ceremony took place on the same day. Regular operations began on 9 December 2012.
context_section_description: The Katzenberg Tunnel is a railway tunnel on the Karlsruhe–Basel high-speed railway that opened in December 2012. The tunnel was built to increase the capacity and speed of the Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway (Rhine Valley Railway, or Rheintalbahn in German) and was built to remove the freight traffic from the towns on the old line. The two parallel, single-track tunnels, which can be passed at up to 250 km/h, extend from Bad Bellingen to Efringen-Kirchen With a length of 9,385 m, it is the third longest tunnel after the Landrücken Tunnel and the Münden Tunnel and the longest twin-bore tunnel in Germany.
  The reduction in journey times for long distance passenger trains between Freiburg and Basel initially amounts to two minutes. After the completion of the entire section of line, the journey time will be around 15 minutes shorter. At night a few freight trains and during the daytime many freight trains are routed through the Katzenberg Tunnel.
  The tunnel and its connection to the existing network cost a total of approximately €610 million. The line was cleared for operations by the Federal Railway Authority (Eisenbahn-Bundesamt) on 4 December 2012. The opening ceremony took place on the same day. Regular operations began on 9 December 2012.
caption: The southern portal of the two tubes of the Katzenberg Tunnel
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