Search Results: 'Deutsche Bahn'

Saving the tunnel customer
19 October, 2010
Although passing through tunnels is statistically one of the safest means of transport, major incidents have given the impression of wider potential danger. The aftermath of the Mont Blanc Tunnel fire and tunnel safety surveys have highlighted real areas of concern. Much of the subsequent attention has been on protecting tunnel structure by so-called ‘passive’ means, but humanitarian concerns must be focused on the speed of getting travellers away from the hazardous areas as soon as possible, for the dangers to life work much more quickly than dangers to structure. Maurice Jones reviews some best practice and developments to improve the chances of survival

Eurotunnel snaps up rail freight company
01 June, 2010

Eurotunnel plans high-speed trains
11 March, 2010

Osterberg rail bores begin
20 April, 2009

More Erfurt rail tunnels
05 June, 2008

Interest sought for Frankfurt and North Rhine
07 August, 2007

BEMO to replace old Frankfurt rail tunnels
13 April, 2007

Herrenknecht twins coming along nicley
07 February, 2006

Compressed air for top down
01 February, 2004
Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Schwarz, head of Heavy Civil Engineering for Walter-Bau AG, merged with DYWIDAG, and Dr.-Ing. Florian Hehenberger, of Hehenberger Consulting & Management, discuss the benefits of utilising compressed air for top down construction of tunnels in the presence of ground water

German order
01 January, 2004

Blasting above the Brandleite
01 July, 2002
When completed in spring 2003 the Rennsteig tunnel, at 7.9km, will be the longest highway tunnel in Germany. The twin tube tunnel is the most expensive element of the new A71/A73 highway, connecting Erfurt with Schweinfurt and included crossing the 112 year old Brandleite railway tunnel with only 6m of cover. G. Denzer of DEGES and R. Maidl, Ingenieurbüro Prof. Dr.-Ing. B. Maidl - Dipl.-Ing. R. Maidl, describe the project

German tunnelling - analysis and outlook
01 July, 2002
For nearly 25 years, STUVA, the German research organisation, has compiled statistics on tunnelling activities in Germany(1). The research programme was triggered by a suggestion from the International Tunnelling Association (ITA). Prof. Dr-Ing. Alfred Haack examines the latest statistics and reviews the outlook for the German tunnelling industry

Better safe than sorry
11 January, 2002
Bavarian passengers wanting a high speed connection north must wait a little longer than expected for the new InterCity Express line from Munich to Nuremberg reports Adrian Greeman.

Tunnels for HS railways in Germany
15 October, 2000
Rupert Sternath, project director for tunnel construction with Deutsche Bahn (German national railways – DBProjekt), describes the context in which a large expansion of the high-performance network is under way. He also describes tunnelling work on one of the big projects, the Cologne-Rhine/Main high-speed link

North-south in Berlin
25 January, 2000
Changes to design and the near catastrophic flooding of a main tunnel caisson have resulted in the construction of central Berlin's missing transport route - the north-south rail link - slip from its original planned completion of 2002 to latest estimates of 2005. However, with the start of the final set of TBM tunnel drives, Lot 3 construction supervisor Lahmeyer International believes the project is now on the home stretch.

German high-speed tunnel start
10 November, 1999

Tunnelling in Berlin
14 October, 1999

Schulwald railway tunnel breakthrough
16 September, 1999