50 million. In mid-March 2002, the federal government raised the embargo on construction and announced that it wanted to quickly settle the financing with DB. On 10 March 2002, the then Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder announced the resumption of construction work. He said that the project had not been financed by the previous government and therefore had to be withdrawn. Deutsche Bahn welcomed the decision. At the end of February 2002, the then Minister of Transport Kurt Bodewig had left the realisation of the project open. Operating concept The new line is based on an operating concept with up to 137 trains each day and each way. An hourly long-distance service each way with some additional trains and ICE Sprinters would be offered. The Federal Government assumed an ICE service (Berlin–Munich) with about 20 passenger trains and 70 goods trains per day and direction. In addition, an hourly service with a traffic class "below ICE standard" would be established. The documents for the plan assessment of 1995 were as follows: "The future operating program provides the following stops for long-distance (ICE) and regional (IR) networks: ICE stops: Nuremberg, Bamberg, Erfurt, additionally at the ends of the day in Erlangen and Coburg, IR stops: Nuremberg, Erlangen, Bamberg, Coburg, Ilmenau, Erfurt." Coburg and Ilmenau were to be served by the ICE trains in the mornings and the evening according to the planning as of 2007. A stop in Coburg would extend the journey time of an ICE by ten minutes according to Deutsche Bahn. According to the Federal Government in 2006, the operating concept envisaged nine daily train pairs serving Coburg. As a guideline for the establishment of an ICE stop in Coburg an increase of at least 60 passengers per train would be required. A re-activation of the Werra Railway between Eisfeld and Coburg would be considered as part of an upgrade of Coburg as a south Thuringian ICE stop. The estimated costs were at least €60 million. The proposed "Ilmenau-Wolfsberg" railway station was removed from the plans in 2011. The Ilm-Kreis objected to this change of plan before the Oberverwaltungsgericht (state supreme administrative court). According to DB data, the necessary infrastructure could be retrofitted for passenger services subsequently. According to the representatives of the state of Thuringia and the city of Ilmenau, plans for a regional service on the fast-line had not been pursued on their part. Special committees of