In order to constructing tunnels for Sicily\u2019s Palermo-Catania railway, two more TBMs have passed their Factory Acceptance Test.<\/p>\n
Deploying location of these two EPBMs will be Lot 3 Lercara-Caltanissetta Xirbi, which involves the detailed design and construction of 47km of new railway line, including 22km of tunnels.<\/p>\n
While currently four of the five TBMs for Lot 3 have completed testing, advancing the Lot 3 is up to consortium of Webuild<\/a>, Ghella<\/a> and Impresa Pizzarotti<\/a>.<\/p>\n As a part of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana\u2019s (RFI) wider program, the Lercara-Caltanissetta Xirbi section is to modernise the Palermo-Catania-Messina railway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In order to constructing tunnels for Sicily\u2019s Palermo-Catania railway, two more TBMs have passed their Factory Acceptance Test. Deploying location of these two EPBMs will be Lot 3 Lercara-Caltanissetta Xirbi, which involves the detailed design and construction of 47km of new railway line, including 22km of tunnels. While currently four of the five TBMs for Lot 3 have completed testing, advancing the Lot 3 is up to consortium of Webuild, Ghella and Impresa Pizzarotti. As a part of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana\u2019s (RFI) wider program, the Lercara-Caltanissetta Xirbi section is to modernise the Palermo-Catania-Messina railway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[3336,223,3470,84,47],"class_list":["post-16192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-project-show-case","tag-factory-acceptance-test","tag-italy","tag-sicilian-railway-project","tag-tbm","tag-tunneling","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}