How much did Nuremberg Hbf–Erfurt Hbf high-speed railway cost to build?
The Nuremberg to Erfurt high-speed railway (VDE 8.1) is the new and upgraded line from Nuremberg through Bamberg and Ebensfeld to Erfurt, of which about 107 km is counted here, built from 1996 and opened for service on 10 December 2017 as part of the Verkehrsprojekt Deutsche Einheit Nr. 8 that Deutsche Bahn puts at EUR 10 billion in total. According to the English Wikipedia, citing the German federal government, the estimated total costs of the Nuremberg to Erfurt project were EUR 5.36 billion in June 2013 and had been reduced to EUR 5.281 billion by the end of 2013, while the EUR 2.9 billion (2011) of the earlier snapshot is only the Ebensfeld to Erfurt new-build section.
Published project estimate
€5.281 billion
Approximately $7.01 billion
Cost basis: 2013
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