The London tunnels programme of Britain’s high-speed rail project, HS2, has marked a notable milestone. The project to build a new railway between London and Birmingham has launched a third tunnel boring machine (TBM) beneath...Read more
On the coldest day of the year, so far, you would not want to be stuck without power, in the countryside on a broken-down train. That happened on Thursday to around 700 passengers of the...Read more
ÖBB installed the final concrete track support slab in Austria’s new Koralm tunnel this week, hitting a fresh milestone in a project that is scheduled to open for traffic by the end of 2025. The...Read more
The builders of HS2, the high speed railway project in England, have confirmed that ‘Florence’ and ‘Cecilia’ – the two giant tunnelling machines digging the project’s longest tunnels – have passed Amersham, 5-and-a-half miles into...Read more
Cargo Sous Terrain (CST), the Swiss company working on underground rail freight transport, will start tunnel boring-related activities for the first time. Test drilling and geophysical measurements of the subsoil along the first section of...Read more
A night-time operation in Warwickshire in central England saw the giant cutter-head from the ‘Dorothy’ Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) move through the countryside above the Long Itchington Wood Tunnel to a new location, so that...Read more