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German rail tunnel expansion commences
02 February, 2024
Work has started on widening the Fachinger and Cramberg rail tunnels in Germany.

Ground conditioning over the decades
27 November, 2023
Lars Langmaack, Technical Director (TBM) of MC-Bauchemie Müller GmbH’s tunnelling business unit, gives a personal review of EPB tunnelling development, including the development of soil conditioning additives in recent decades, and ways ahead

Deutsche Bahn proposes Germany’s longest rail tunnel
23 November, 2023
Deutsche Bahn has announced a 30km tunnel as the preferred option for a new rail route between Dresden and Prague.

Tunnelling completed for Stuttgart 21
18 September, 2023
The final breakthrough has been achieved on the Stuttgart 21 project, marking completion of more than 56km of tunnelling.

Orders in for Herrenknecht Tunnel Enlargement Systems
26 June, 2023
Herrenknecht is to supply two of its Tunnel Enlargement Systems (TES) to German rail company Deutsche Bahn, allowing it to refurbish tunnels while maintaining rail services.

Spotlight on Innotrans 2022
26 September, 2022
Berlin is hosting InnoTrans 2022, which will feature many aspects of rail infrastructure including tunnels

Digital drive
29 October, 2021
Digital technology promises multiple benefits and is making huge inroads in many sectors but its take-up in tunnelling and other infrastructure projects is still at relatively early stages. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Trans Euro Express
17 July, 2020
The Magistrale is a 1,500km high-speed rail project that will link France, Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. Julian Champkin reports on the tunnelling through Germany’s Swabian Alps.

DB Netz proposes new tunnel as part of rail upgrade
08 June, 2020
Recently unveiled plans by German rail-infrastructure provider Deutsche Bahn Netz for electrifying the 120km line from Nuremburg to Schirnding via Marktredwitz include the construction of a new 5.5km tunnel. This will be in addition to the modification of over 100 bridges and 10 tunnels that will be required for the introduction of the 15kV, 16.7Hz overhead system.

Work begins on Munich underground station
19 May, 2020
Works are continuing on Munich’s 11km Second Core S-Bahn railway line with the construction of the underground station Munchen Hauptbahnhof beneath the central railway terminal. Work began in late April on diaphragm walls up to 65m deep which will form part of the retaining structure and outer shell of the new underground station, located 41m below ground level. Construction will use the top-down method following the partial demolition of an existing structure.

Filder Tunnel western breakthrough
23 August, 2018
Germany – The TBM boring the western tube of the 9.5km twin tube Filder Tunnel broke through in late July. As Tunnels and Tunnelling goes to press, the 120m-long, 10.82m-diameter Herrenknecht multi-mode machine is being disassembled and turned around inside a 120m-long cavern. In autumn it will bore a 3.4km section of the eastern tube to complete the tunnel.

Deutsche dip
19 June, 2018
Alex Conacher speaks to Stuva’s managing director Roland Leucker about the current challenges facing metro work in Europe’s largest economy

ULM Approach Tunnel
29 March, 2017
Excavation of Germany’s Albabstieg tunnel was completed in December representinga major milestone in the creation of a new high speed rail line to Stuttgart

Going Live
30 January, 2017
Tunnellers must advance through a ring of frozen ground protecting a live railway in order to build the Rastatt Tunnel and create vital new capacity along this crucial European transport corridor

Filder tunnel
30 October, 2015
Progress is good so far on the Filder, biggest of the Stuttgart 21 rail project tunnels in southern Germany.

Zublin/Hochtief to build Rastatt rail tunnel
12 August, 2014
GERMANY/SWITZERLAND - A joint venture led by Züblin and Hochtief was commissioned by DB Netz AG to deliver the shell construction of the "Rastatt Tunnel". The tunnel project is part of planning approval section 1.2 of the new railway route between Karlsruhe and Basel. The contract volume amounts to approximately EUR 312M (USD 417.6M).

Albabstieg Tunnel contract awarded
08 August, 2013
Strabag subsidiary Ed Züblin has been awarded as lead JV member a EUR 250M (USD 334M) contract by Deutsche Bahn to build the 5.9km Albabstieg Tunnel along the new Wendlingen–Ulm rail line in Germany.

Bad Canstatt awarded to Alpine-Hochtief-W&F JV
04 April, 2012

Where the work is
18 October, 2011
As T&TI goes to press the general and business media are awash with stories of economic gloom and dire predictions, and yet the tunnelling industry in Western Europe seems relatively buoyant. Can this comparatively happy state continue? Maurice Jones checks on the major current and planned projects and the prospects for some big players headquartered in Western Europe

Channel Tunnel risk profile for policy
13 April, 2011
This article is based on a the presentation by Richard Clifton to the 2nd Annual Fire Protection and Safety in Tunnels Conference held in Milan, Italy, in October 2010. The presentation was entitled ‘Case Study: An exploration of Channel Tunnel design and operation, factoring in risk profile, to assess key safety policies’. Richard Clifton is chairman and head of the UK delegation to the Channel Tunnel Safety Authority within the Office of Rail Regulation, UK