According to the original plans, Stuttgart 21 should have been in operation long ago.
It soon became apparent that nothing would come of this.
After all, there are important components for later rail traffic.
Stuttgart - The Stuttgart 21 rail project can take on other forms: The first rails are to be delivered on Tuesday (11.00 a.m.), and trains will travel through tunnels from the then new Stuttgart underground station in a few years' time.
According to Deutsche Bahn, the 120-meter-long rails come by freight train to Stuttgart-Feuerbach and are unloaded at the entrance of the tunnel there.
The chairman of the management of DB Projekt Stuttgart-Ulm GmbH, Olaf Drescher, wants to be there and inform the media about the further plans.
The rails are to be laid in more than 50 kilometers of tunnels in the Stuttgart basin, which, according to the information, are now almost finished.
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Lingering on Max-Eyth-See is forbidden on Saturday from 8 p.m. to Sunday morning at 6 a.m., as the city announced on Friday.
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The Stuttgart-Ulm rail project includes the renovation of the main train station in the state capital including the connection in the Fildern area (called S21) as well as the new line from Wendlingen am Neckar (Esslingen district) over the Alb to Ulm.
According to the latest estimates, the mega-construction is likely to cost more than twelve billion euros.
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