Deutsche Bahn Begins Preparatory Work for Pfaffensteig Tunnel

The Pfaffensteig Tunnel enables the introduction of the regular-interval timetable “Deutschlandtakt” on the Gäubahn and a journey time between Stuttgart and Zurich that is around 15 minutes...

1 Launch Pit and Exploratory Tunnel West of the Main Station The western section contains the approximately 200 m long launch pit for the tunnel boring machines for the exploratory tunnel and the two...

Construction work on the Albvorland Tunnel, which will be 8176 m long, officially began on 6 October 2017. Implenia has been commissioned by Deutsche Bahn to build the tunnel, a key section of the new...

This year, the authors from the fields of clients, the construction industry and planning deal with the main topics of rock mechanics, tunnelling and underground construction and sustainability....

In the Munich metropolitan region with about 6 million people, the west-east connection via the S-Bahn main line, designed for 250 000 daily users, has long been congested and is the bottleneck in...