There are four TBMs Krystyna and Elisabetta, Maria and Anna that are being used to tunnel the central Targowek and Wola sections of the Warsaw metro line 2. TBMs Krystyna and Elisabetta will now drive  tunnels near Bemowo so they  were recently moved to the construction site of the future Powstancow Slaskich station in Bemowo, a southern suburb of Warsaw. The machines will be lowered into the launch shaft for their assembly and launch towards the Ksiecia Janusza/Prince Janusz station of  metro line 2. They will bore the 1369 m left tunnel and 1366 m right tunnel, installing 1824 m prefabricated rings along the way. The 2km section from Wola into the city’s Bemowo district will be the shortest on the metro Line 2 and it will include Ulrychow (C05) and Powstancow Slaskich (C04) stations.

The syndicate comprising of Gulermak and Astaldi, won the contract in December 2018 and they have  until November 2021 to complete the EUR210.54 million (PLN 959 million) project, co-financed by the European Union from the Cohesion Fund under the Operational Program Infrastructure and Environment 2014-2020.

TBM Maria has started working on Brodno

In mid-March 2020, TBMs Anna and Maria were lowered into the launch shaft at the construction site of the future Brodno station. They have to bore the north-eastern section of the Warsaw metro line 2 towards Trocka station. TBM Maria has started boring the 2908 m right tunnel click here for the video.

When completed the Warsaw’s Metro Line 2 will have a total length of 32 km with 27 stations: western section (8 stations), north-eastern section (6 stations), south eastern section (6 stations) and central section (7 stations).  To learn more please click here and pl/11 for the tunnelbuilder archive. Visit https://www.metro.waw.pl/. 21/20.