At the beginning of May, the TBM Margherita (10 m in diameter and 140 m long) reached 1 km of advancement in the excavation of the odd-numbered track tube of the 6.87 km-long, twin-tube Cefalù tunnel. This is part of the track-doubling on the Ogliastrillo-Castelbuono section of the Palermo-Messina line. When completed, the tunnel will be lined with more than 43,000 segments and will house the future Cefalù underground station.
Work is also continuing on other fronts at the site, such as
The latter is characterised both by the interference between different infrastructures (existing trackbed, new trackbed, existing road network to be diverted) and by the orography of an area characterised by unstable steep slopes close to the structures.
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