Jon WorthWelcome to #CrossBorderRail Day 12
Heading home to Berlin today, but there are a few things to see first!
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And Iâm on a double track mainline *thatâs not electrified* AGAIN. This time Lichtenfels - Kulmbach - Hof
When @schienenallianz says Germany needs to electrify main lines, they could just basically put âBavariaâ instead. Because apart from 1 line in each of Schleswig Holstein and ThĂŒringen, the rest of the priority projects are ALL here!
Mechanical points at Stammbach. Yep, someone in a signal box still has to shift levers by hand here.
Martin Hoffmann@jon stellwerke.info knows of 621 active mechanical boxes in Germany, so presumably in the range of 200 stations, block posts, etc.
@partim Iâd wager half of them are in Bayern!
@jon Skimming over the start of the list, the east seems to dominate.
@jon Hang on, I found the advanced filters. Hereâs the numbers be DB Netz regions:
Nord 89
Ost 22
West 47
SĂŒdost 211
SĂŒdwest 47
SĂŒd 90
(SĂŒdost is southern East Germany, Bavaria is SĂŒd.)
@partim that it's high in Sachsen isn't that surprising actually, thinking about it. So many branch lines, mostly unrenovated...
@jon Probably also plenty main lines. East Germany didnât have the resources to upgrade and then infrastructure austerity happened.
@partim hmm, if on main lines too I don't know which. I am on the Hof - Zwickau - Dresden main line right now, and this one was upgraded properly. Perhaps Dresden - Görlitz still - I will check later :-)