Biggest bore in Łódź
Infrastructureschedule 30 March 2020
The excavation work on the railway tunnel is due to begin in June
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POLAND The first few elements of a tunnel boring machine (TBM), including a shield with a diameter of 13m, have been delivered for the use in the tunnel project between the Łódź Fabryczna and Łódź Kaliska/Łódź Żabieniec stations.
The tunnel project is to take around two years. The mechanical ‘mole’ weighs around 1,560 tonnes and it is 115m in length. It will be used to bore a double track tunnel from the starting chamber between ul. Odolanowska and ul. Stolarska, through the Łódź Polesie and Łódź Śródmieście underground stations, to Łódź Fabryczna station. The tunnel will have a length of 3km and a diameter of 12.7m. This is the largest TBM that to be employed in Poland to date – with the previous large
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