Search Results: 'Rail Link Engineering'

UK tunnelling projects
01 December, 1999
The September 1999 meeting of the British Tunnelling Society, which took place at Olympia in conjunction with the Tunnel Construction and Piling 99 event, boasted an excellent turn-out. The subject of the informal discussion was current tunnel construction in Kent. There were three papers: the North Downs and Ashford tunnels for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and the Ramsgate road tunnel.

UK partnering panel
01 December, 1999

Grouting
15 October, 1999

Tunnelling for the 2001 world skiing championship
14 October, 1999
NATM has been used to construct the 1743m long Wolfsgruben Tunnel at St Anton, part of the east-west Austrian rail link across the Arlberg Mountain. Dipl. Ing. Fitl of Stuag describes how excavation has been carried out in difficult ground for opening in time for the 2001 world skiing championship

UK tunnelling: past, present and future
16 September, 1999
Eric Snowdon, Chairman of the British Tunnelling Society, and Myles O'Reilly, Chairman of the Tunnels & Tunnelling International Editorial Advisory Board, chart the progress of tunnelling in the UK from the middle of the 19th century onwards, recounting its many innovations and achievements. They examine the present activity in UK tunnelling and assess the prospects for UK tunnellers at home and abroad in the medium and long term.