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The Engineer
12 January 2021
England
Network Rail is making the final preparations for the installation of an 11,000-tonne pre-constructed concrete tunnel on the East Coast Main Line.
Built on-site over the past nine months, the 155m concrete box will be slid under existing rail infrastructure ...
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A project to construct China’s first undersea high-speed rail tunnel in eastern Zhejiang Province was approved on Monday, according to The Paper digital newspaper. Investments in the project will amount to over $4 billion.Construction of the ...
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It was a historic moment that passed Sydney by.Without any public fanfare, a giant tunnel boring machine named Kathleen has completed digging the first rail tunnel under Sydney Harbour for a new metro train line.So unremarked has been the occasion ...
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Ambitious plans by businessman Peter Vesterbacka to dig a pair of rail tunnels below the Gulf of Finland to link Helsinki with Tallinn, Estonia are not economically feasible, according to railway historian, journalist and author Jan-Erik Wiik.Wiik, ...
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A temporary six-lane road will be built alongside Anzac Parade to allow for a tunnel to be dug for the $2.1 billion light rail line between Sydney's CBD and the eastern suburbs.The temporary diversion will run along the eastern side of Anzac Parade ...
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- VINCI Construction Grands Projets and its Swedish partner Skanska succeeded in building the tunnels through the “impenetrable mountain” - Sweden’s longest railway tunnels were built using VINCI Construction Grands Projets’ ...
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Work on Thailand's first rail tunnel under the Chao Phraya River is expected to finish by Dec 5 this year and will connect with the Sanam Chai station train to be developed into a "palace hall" on the extended Blue Line rail route. More than 75% of ...
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The Prime Minister and Mayor of London Boris Johnson celebrated the completion of Crossrail’s tunnels by going 40 metres below the capital to thank the men and women who are constructing the new £14.8 billion east-west railway.
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