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August 13, 2025 | Infrastructure

German Rail completes construction of Rastatt Tunnel

TBM entombed since collapse in August 2017 removed and civil works completed.

March 27, 2021 | News

Eastern Rhine Valley line remains closed following landslide

The line was blocked by a landslide on March 15, with DB aiming to reopen the line by the end of April.

September 17, 2020 | Freight

Learning the lessons of Rastatt

Developed following the Rastatt incident in 2017, the ICM Handbook is designed to improve responses to disruptions along the Rail Freight Corridor network. Christiane Warnecke and Alessandro Fattorini from the Rhine-Alpine Rail Freight Corridor talk with David Burroughs about how guidelines from the handbook and other lessons learned from the Rastatt incident were put into practice following an accident at Auggen in April.

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