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End of the line for Elizabeth!

28/08/2015

Rail Engineer has visited the new Crossrail Farringdon station site before (issue 118, August 2014) and has looked at the working of the tunnel boring machines (TBMs). However, the latest visit to ...

35 miles, 2 million truck loads of earth and £6.5 billion later

28/08/2015

The NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel, when it opens to the public on June 1 2016, will transport passengers from Zurich to Milan in two hours and 50 minutes,

Sydney Metro TBM breaks cover

27/08/2015

AUSTRALIA: Tunnel boring machines typically arrive ‘face first’ at a breakthrough sites, but TBMs Maria and Isabelle

Manukau marine drilling project completed

18/08/2015

Something has barged out of Manukau Harbour ahead of schedule.

Dismantling Crossrail’s tunnel boring machines

13/08/2015

Crossrail has released a set of images showing its final tunnel boring machine (TBM), Victoria, being dismantled at Farringdon

An engineering adventure

12/08/2015

Our incumbent technical editor takes to the screen to present a new engineering show due to air later this month. He tells the story of what to expect, and how it all came about.

Qatar completes main tunnel

10/08/2015

Excavation works for the main tunnel of Mesaimeer Surface and Ground Water Drainage Project in Qatar have been completed.

Xiamen-Zhangzhou intercity rail to start construction by the end of 2015

23/07/2015

Xiamen-Zhangzhou intercity rail to start construction by the end of 2015

Feasibility study into Trans-Pennine tunnel plan

23/07/2015

A £1.3m contract has been handed to a joint Mouchel/Hyder team

SBB awards contract for new Bözberg tunnel

17/07/2015

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has awarded Implenia, Switzerland, the SFr 145m ($US 152m) main

Riyadh Metro: Bechtel-led team starts tunneling

09/07/2015

JEDDAH: A consortium led by global engineering, project management and construction company Bechtel has begun tunneling on Line 1 of the Riyadh Metro, marking an important milestone in the ...

China’s CCCC wins $705 million tunnel contract in Bangladesh

02/07/2015

SHANGHAI - China Communications Construction Corp (CCCC) said it had won a $705 million contract to build an underwater tunnel below the Karnaphuli river in south-eastern Bangladesh.

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