Search Results: 'Deutsche Bahn'

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.