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Bossler Tunnel: Excavation
of second Tube completed

The Herrenknecht TBM “Käthchen” completed the second tube of the Bossler Tunnel on the new Wendlingen–Ulm railway line in early June Quelle/credit: Reiner Pfisterer/DB Projekt Stuttgart–Ulm GmbH
The Herrenknecht TBM “Käthchen” completed the second tube of the Bossler Tunnel on the new
Wendlingen–Ulm railway line in early June
Quelle/credit: Reiner Pfisterer/DB Projekt Stuttgart–Ulm GmbH

In early June, the site crew working with tunnel boring machine “Käthchen” has completed the second tube of the Bossler Tunnel. The breakthrough near Mühlhausen im Tale in Baden-Württemberg is another milestone in the construction of the Wendlingen–Ulm railway line. The Bossler Tunnel is part of the Stuttgart–Ulm railway project and is expected to go into operation in 2022.

The second tube of the Bossler Tunnel runs parallel to the first, which the JV ATA Tunnel Albaufstieg (Porr Deutschland GmbH, G. Hinteregger & Söhne Baugesellschaft m.b.H., Östu-Stettin Hoch-und Tiefbau GmbH, Swietelsky...

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