TERRATEC completes 20 breakthroughs for Delhi Metro
Two TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Tunnel Boring Machines made a historic double breakthrough on 14th November, marking the end of tunnelling works on the 58.6km Pink Line (Line 7) […]
Category Archives: Breakthrough
Tunnelling breakthrough at Farnworth Tunnel
Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Fillie has broken through at Farnworth Tunnel, completing a tunnelling drive at the centre of the North West electrification project. Network Rail and contractor J. Murphy & […]
Alice to finally see daylight
After almost two years of rumbling under Auckland, a giant boring machine called Alice is due to break through to daylight this morning (19th Oct 2015), leaving twin motorway tunnels […]
Tunnelling breakthrough for Riyadh metro Line 5
Representatives of Riyadh’s Fast Consortium, Arriyadh Development Authority, and residents of the district of Salah Al-Din attended a ceremony at the site of the future Salah Al-Din station on October […]
‘Major milestone’ as Victoria station tunnelling work finishes
Works on the massive £700m Victoria station upgrade have reached a “major milestone” with a final tunnelling breakthrough on 14th September. London Underground (LU) engineers tunnelled through the final metre […]
