{"id":399287,"date":"2025-09-05T06:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399287\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T06:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:36:12","slug":"germanys-drive-to-revive-disused-rail-lines-branded-unstable-left-to-chance-constellations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399287\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s drive to revive disused rail lines branded \u2018unstable, left to chance constellations\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Germany has mapped more than 5,000 kilometres of disused lines that could be brought back into passenger service. However, a new study warns that the country\u2019s reactivation efforts remain \u201ctoo often dependent on chance,\u201d with a wide gulf between potential and implementation:\u00a0by 2030, less than a quarter deemed viable could reopen.<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSubscribe to gain access to all news<\/p>\n<p>Already have a subscription? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railtech.com\/login\/?redirect_to=%2Fregional-rail%2F2025%2F09%2F05%2Fgermanys-drive-to-revive-disused-rail-lines-branded-unstable-left-to-chance-constellations%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tChoose your subscription<\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tWant to read this article for free?<\/p>\n<p>You can read <strong>one free article per month<\/strong>. Enter your email and we&#8217;ll send you a free link to access the full article. No payment required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany has mapped more than 5,000 kilometres of disused lines that could be brought back into passenger service.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[137768,63918,38587,137769,2000,299,1824,137770,137771,83385,128847],"class_list":{"0":"post-399287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-arl","9":"tag-baden-wurttemberg","10":"tag-bavaria","11":"tag-disused-lines","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-rail-policy","16":"tag-rail-reactivation","17":"tag-regional-rail","18":"tag-schleswig-holstein"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115150310033524694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}