Stuttgart 21:Transport of 8 Million Tonnes of Spoil
“Half of our job is done now and the end of the transport is foreseeable“, stated Wolf-Dieter Tigges, manager of the central construction logistics (ZBL) on the DB project Stuttgart–Ulm. His department has been responsible since June 2014 for the carting away of material produced by the inner-city construction sites of the
future rail node in Stuttgart. On 24 April 2017, the 4000th train departed from the handling area of the construction logistics department at the north station – meaning that four of the eight million tonnes of earth and rock have now been transported away from the sites of the main station and adjacent tunnels.
40 Million Tonnes of Spoil
on the Overall Project
Altogether about 20 million tonnes will be produced by the part project Stuttgart 21. The eight million tonnes to be transported through the central construction logistics department come from the project sections 1.1 (Valley crossing with main station), 1.2 (Filder Tunnel), 1.5 (Feeders to Feuerbach and Bad Cannstatt with S-Bahn urban transit) und 1.6a (Feeders to Ober- and Untertürkheim). In addition, about twelve million tonnes of spoil are disposed of directly by the contractors for the currently decentralised logistics areas of Filder and...
