 So Maschen has so far not reached the upper planning limit of 11,000 goods wagons per day; one of the reasons is that in the last 40 years there has been a considerable increase in the length of good wagons.Because the 30-year-old facilities were in need of renovation, in 2009 work started on replacing and partially converting the yard.This will also take account of the increasing significance of container traffic from the ports.