The new high-speed route would run parallel to the current right-of-way, enabling dispatching alternatives, potential speed increases, and up to 25 more trains per hour.
Various high-speed routes bring major cities in Germany and in neighboring countries within a few hours away and thus provide an alternative to air travel.
Tracks 4 and 5 belong to the new high-speed route and only trains of the Munich-Nuremberg Express stop here.
They worked in this form until 1957, when electric locomotives took over on the high-speed routes.
Meanwhile, about a dozen other high-speed routes are already on the drawing boards or under construction.
From Buffalo, the high-speed route would continue across Ontario to Detroit.
The Government's intention was to create at least one high-speed route to the south coast, while the guardians of the forest, the Verderers, resisted any further development.
Nevertheless there have been number of studies, including several major ones, that examined the process of adding a true high-speed route.
The new high-speed route will bypass Libourne, shortening the total distance traveled compared to the existing route.
Any operators of a new high-speed route are faced with a decision on which technology to use.