Leipzig City Tunnel

The City Tunnel is a twin-bore railway tunnel for the city-centre S-Bahn in Leipzig. It links Leipzig Hauptbahnhof with the central Markt station, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz station and Bayerischer Bahnhof. Construction began in July 2003. The first bore was structurally completed in March 2008, the second in October 2008. The tunnel and new tracks linking it with the rest of the network were opened for commercial service on 15 December 2013, the date of the timetable change in December 2013. From South to North Leipzig MDR (originally Leipzig Semmelweißstraße, outside the tunnel) Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof (platform length of 140 m) Leipzig Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz (platform length of 140 m) Leipzig Markt (platform length of 140 m) Leipzig Hauptbahnhof (platform length of 215 m. Option to extend in a northerly direction to a length of 400 m); 800 m long ramps Leipzig Nord (originally Leipzig Theresienstraße, outside the tunnel) In addition to the four underground stations of the City Tunnel, the shells of the new stations Leipzig MDR and Leipzig Nord - Berliner Brücke were completed in January 2011. The northern ramp to the entrance of the tunnel is 600 m long and has a slope of 40 ‰ File:Leipzig Richard-Lehmann-Strasse Ueberwerfungsbauwerk.jpg|A [[flying junction]] located south of the tunnel separates tracks to the south from those to the east (construction phase, 2009). File:J21387 Tunnelrampe West, 1442 203.jpg|North ramp at Leipzig Hauptbahnhof File:City-Tunnel Leipzig - Station Bayerischer Bahnhof 01 (Zugang 1).JPG|Entrance of Bayerischer Bahnhof station File:S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland. Talent 2,008,Station Leipzig Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz.jpg|The S-Bahn station beneath Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz File:S-Bahn - City-Tunnel Leipzig mit BR 182 und Doppelstockwagen (HP Markt).jpg|The S-Bahn station Markt in Leipzig It was planned that each hour and in each direction, there would be up to ten S-Bahn, two regional trains and one express ().