Overview

• Deutsche Bahn closed the 130-kilometre Anhalter Railway section between Berlin Südkreuz and Bitterfeld until December 13.
• Long-distance trains are being rerouted, adding roughly 45 to 60 minutes between Berlin and Leipzig or Halle.
• Lutherstadt Wittenberg and Berlin Südkreuz are skipped by long-distance services during the works.
• Regional lines RE3, RE4, RE8, RB24, RB32, RB33 and S-Bahn lines S2 and S8 on Bitterfeld–Lutherstadt Wittenberg are replaced by buses, with some express buses on select sections.
• The project installs 33 new switches, repairs 59, fully renews about 100 km of track, and renovates a further 38 km.