How is the development of railway infrastructure in Europe
Author: Michelle Leonny
Switzerland underpins its growth from the bottom of the Alps. Build the largest civil works in terms of railway infrastructure in Europe with the aim of not only shorten the distance between Zurich and Milan, strategic financial centers of the old continent, but to reduce the times for freight, which will result in injection into the economic system in the region.
Forty meters daily progress through solid rock was Alp Transit mark was set in 1992 in the construction of the Goatherd base tunnel, where two thousand workers participate in different nations.
On October 15, the drilling reached the last section of rock and thus capped a decade of work to see the light on both sides of the mountain. Thus, the Swiss people took an important step in the building called “his future.”
The 57 km railway tunnel in the heart of the Swiss Alps gives rise to the longest work of its kind in the world, with 50 years of planning, 20 of them in work, will be ready in 2017.
Gone is the undersea Seikan Tunnel, which connects the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido, with 53.85 miles, followed by the underwater tunnel Channel of 50.45 kilometers connecting Britain with France.
Located 2 thousand 300 meters below the highest summit of the mountain that gave its name is an excavation of 24 million tons of stone materials, equivalent to five times the Cheeps pyramid in Egypt.
The cost is as monumental: 12 thousand 580 million dollars to make bones, muscles and skin futtock complex, it has so far killed eight construction workers.
The central link of NEAT (German acronym for New Cross in the Alps) project that involves completely revamp the railway system in Switzerland.
Among its objectives is to promote public transport, strengthen economic and commercial attractiveness, and integrate the country into the European rail network speed.
Since 1996, Switzerland imagination penetrated the mountain. In that year and until 1998 were carried out geological surveys in the area. From then until 2004 was installed prior infrastructure, including road and rail works, galleries, access, circulation and vertical wells.
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