How much did Landrücken Tunnel cost to build?
The Landruecken Tunnel (Landrueckentunnel) is the 10,779 m twin-track railway tunnel of the Hannover-Wuerzburg high-speed line under the Landruecken ridge between Kalbach and Sinntal in Hesse, Germany's longest railway tunnel, built by the Deutsche Bundesbahn through its Hannover-Wuerzburg project group at the Nuremberg directorate from 28 September 1981, with the shell completed on 16 January 1986 and operation taken over in May 1988. German Wikipedia gives the net shell construction cost as 335 million Deutsche Mark, against a planned total investment of 320.7 million and an initial estimate of 250 million in 1982.
Final project cost
DEM 335 million
Approximately $154.27 million
Cost basis: 1986
Norbert Hüttisch, KarlsruheCC BY-SA 3.0
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Basis of the published figure
Final project cost1986
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Key dimensions
- Total lengthjossa-spessart.de
- 10.779 km
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