On 10 December 2017 the Erfurt to Ebensfeld section of the high speed line between Berlin and München will be inaugurated, thus completing this 10 billion EUR project, also known as VDE 8, whose construction started in the early 1990s.
An ICE 3, modified having been fitted with on-board ETCS Level 2, emerges from the southern portal of the 3,766 m Eierberge tunnel on 17 August 2017, on a test run on which it reached 300 km/h.
Photo: DB