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<p>[quote user="243129"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">VOLKER LANDWEHR</div> <div class="quote-content">Something alike happened to the rail network. Only 5000 miles were destroyed beyond repair. Needing a transportation system desperately the existing, damaged track was repaired as fast as possible.</div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>Were not areas that formerly had curvature rebuilt straight because bomb damage had 'removed' obstructions i.e. buildings, factories etc. ?</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>The short answer is no. At least not with the intention of higher speeds. The priorities were different. First it was fast repair of the existing track to get a transportation system working, than better comfort and then higher speeds.</p> <p>As I said before German Railway arrived back at 100 mph only in 1967.</p> <p>High-speed started with rebulding of old routes to 125 mph standard. In 1978 revenue service with 125 mph started on these rebuilt sections. In 1991 traffic commenced on the first newly built high-speed track with speeds up to 175 mph.</p> <p>Factories were rebuilt in their old places, when ever possible with modern facilities on old foundations.Here happened what Overmod already described and you assumed for the rail network.</p> <p>My parents moved me into an appartment in a newly built appartment house in Hamburg in 1950. It was built on the foundation and basement of a bombed out building. Not only "our" house was built this way, but the whole quarter and city.</p> <p>They were rebuild with recycled bricks from destroyed houses where ever possible.</p> <p>Where an office building was built from the foundation up it was on an before occupied lot.</p> <p>So there were no new free lanes for the railroad. The cities were rebuilt with the same street grid.</p> <p>There was even a thought of high speed rail. We or better my parents' generation had other concerns. We needed to survive. Luckily I was born shortly after WWII so I didn't have to live through it and I have only little recollection of the hard ship in the years directly after. But I remember the rebuilding effort as he went on in our quarter into the late 1950s.<br />Regards, Volker</p>
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