The total length of the German High Speed Rail network is approximately 1500 Km.

This figure includes upgraded lines and lines under construction, but not lines still in the planning stage.

The total is made up as follows:

• Cologne-Aachen high-speed railway (upgraded line, 250 km/h), 70 Km
• Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line (new line, 300 km/h), 180 Km
• Erfurt-Leipzig/Halle high-speed railway (new line, 300 km/h, under construction), 123 Km
• Hanover-Berlin high-speed railway (partially new line, 250 km/h), 285 Km
• Hanover-Würzburg high-speed railway (new line, 250 km/h), 327 Km
• Mannheim-Stuttgart high-speed railway (new line, 250 km/h), 99 Km
• Nuremberg-Erfurt high-speed railway (partially new line, 300 km/h, under construction), 107 Km
• Nuremberg-Munich high-speed railway (partially new line, 300 km/h), 171 Km
• Karlsruhe-Basel high speed line (new line, 250 km/h, incomplete), approximately 100 Km open.