Innsbruck bypass

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Bundesstraße 18, 6068 Mils, Austria

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N47° 16' 55" E11° 32' 29"   (47.281944444444, 11.541388888889) Start navigation »

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The Innsbruck bypass (German: Umfahrung Innsbruck or sometimes Güterzugumfahrung Innsbruck, that is the Innsbruck freight railway bypass) is a 14.853 kilometre-long double-track electrified main line of the Austrian railways. It connects the Lower Inn Valley railway with the Brenner railway, bypassing Innsbruck. It was opened on 29 May 1994. The line is at a major part of the rail freight network of Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB).
The bypass is part of the Line 1 of Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T). It was intended to increase the capacity of the line and to reduce the noise created by freight trains on the city of Innsbruck. It cost an estimated €211 million to build.
The Deutsche Reichsbahn (German Imperial Railways) built a local bypass of Innsbruck station during World War II in 1944, which was demolished in 1945.
Major components of the Bypass Innsbruck are:
the grade-separated Fritzens-Wattens 2 junction,
the 488 metre-long bridge over the Inn,
the 12,696 metre-long Inntal (Inn valley) tunnel
the Innsbruck 1 junction

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