DB InfraGO is the infrastructure manager of the Deutsche Bahn group, responsible for Germany’s federally owned rail network and its passenger stations. It allocates train paths, controls traffic and maintains and renews track, stations and structures for more than 450 rail companies.
DB InfraGO began operating on 1 January 2024, when Deutsche Bahn pooled its network company DB Netz and its station company DB Station&Service in one public-interest infrastructure company. It remains a wholly owned subsidiary of DB AG. Its articles of association make public-interest goals, including a resilient network and a larger market share for rail, part of its corporate purpose.
The company manages 33,365 km of lines and 60,769 km of track, with 25,226 bridges and viaducts and 5,400 stations. An average of 50,000 trains a day run on the network, operated by DB’s own companies and by competing operators. It employs more than 68,000 people.
As the infrastructure manager for most of the German network, DB InfraGO publishes the network statement, allocates capacity and calculates track access charges for every operator. Its maintenance and construction planning determines how reliably passenger and freight services can run, inside and outside the DB group.
Corridor renewal programme
DB InfraGO is renewing more than 40 heavily used corridors, each in a full closure lasting several months. The first was the Riedbahn between Frankfurt and Mannheim, closed from July to December 2024.
In September 2025 the federal transport ministry approved a revised schedule that runs to 2036, with fewer parallel closures per year. In September 2026 Deutsche Bahn said the renovations will take longer than planned, without setting a new completion year.
In 2025 DB InfraGO invested more than EUR 19bn, renewed 2,173 km of track and 2,065 switches and commissioned 60 electronic interlockings. ETCS covered 683 km of the network at the end of the year.