After decades of wrangling over a more modern train connection between Nuremberg and Saxony, there is now movement on the issue: the Bundestag's budget committee has cleared the way to plan the electrification of the section between Nuremberg and Schnabelwaid in the district of Bayreuth. This was announced by several members of parliament from the region. This means that another section of the Franconia-Saxony main line can be electrified in future.
"We are thus taking a decisive step forward so that Germany's largest diesel island is finally a thing of the past," said CSU MP Jonas Geissler, spokesperson for the Franconia-Saxony Main Line parliamentary group. "I am more than grateful to the Budget Committee today because the Gordian knot for Bavaria's most important rail project has finally been cut. Now we can get started."
