Spain - Breakthrough in the Requejo rail tunnel

21/06/2018

On the 20.06.2018 Adif completed the excavation of the left tube of the Requejo tunnel (2.5 km), on the Pedralba de la Praderia - Padornelo Tunnel subsection (province of Zamora) of the AV Madrid-Galizia line. The left tube of the Requejo tunnel is 2,540 m long, of which 20 m and 120 m at the cut and cover portals and the remaining 2.4 km will be dug in the traditional way. Click es/110 for the tunnelbuilder archive. Go to http://prensa.adifaltavelocidad.es/nde/u08/GAP/Prensa.nsf/Vo000A/386C0949DF14710AC12582B20039FA87?Opendocument.