Issue 6 2009, Past issues / 12 December 2009 /
The North Access Section to the Brenner Tunnel is particularly important to rail transport within Europe as part of the TEN 1 – Axis Berlin-Palermo in a north-south direction and as the main east-west traffic artery in the junction with the Lower Inn rail link. Security, in particular, is a topic with a crucial role to play in the design and construction of the railway engineering infrastructure, due to its complexity and tight timeframe.
The railway engineering infrastructure in the Lower Inn (Tirol) Valley consists of the 41km-long Kundl/Radfeld-Baumkirchen section, which is mainly of new double track construction. The underground sections are led through a single main tunnel tube. This length of line is particularly notable for its high proportion of tunnel works, with a total of 34km double track tunnel designed for a maximum operating speed of 250km/h. The modernisation of the whole route has the main aim of considerably speeding up and increasing the capacity for transporting people and goods between northern Europe and Italy. (more…)
Issue 5 2009, Past issues / 26 September 2009 /
The new Citytunnel in Malmö is the next major step to connect the City centres of Malmö (Sweden) and Copenhagen (Denmark) even closer. The new line, connected to the Öresund-bridge and the Malmö Main Station will go underneath the centre of Malmö, crossing sensitive areas with hospitals, theatres and private houses and will avoid a change of directions during the stop at Malmö Central.
Rhomberg Bahntechnik has awarded the contract to construct the entire slab track type HA-LVT (high attenuation low vibration track), which has been chosen to minimise the vibrations of the trains which pass the buildings in little depth. The slab track portion of the project is about 13km, whereof 11km are in a single track tunnel. Six turnouts and a crossing in slab track will be installed as well.
The main challenges in this project are given by the short construction time in combination with very limited access to the tunnels and to the area of the main railway station, Malmö C which lies in the City centre of Malmö. The whole logistic supply during the construction will therefore be done railbound from the southern portal, Hyllie, to avoid works and transports in the in the City as much as possible. (more…)
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