{"id":7506,"date":"2022-06-15T11:58:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T11:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=7506"},"modified":"2022-06-15T11:58:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T11:58:27","slug":"semmering-base-tunnel-first-breakthrough-is-achieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=7506","title":{"rendered":"Semmering Base Tunnel First Breakthrough is Achieved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Linking G\u00f6stritz and Fr\u00f6schnitzgraben, Austria\u2019s Semmering Base Tunnel has attained first breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">TBM Carl that was still located in the Fr\u00f6schnitzgraben section of the tunnel faced with the miners in G\u00f6stritz, while a narrow passage in the cutting wheel allowed miners from the two construction sections to meet in the tunnel for the first time. At the moment the TBM is being dismantled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Achieving the excavation of 24km \u2013 around 90% \u2013 of the 27.3km twin-tube tunnel is the intended landmark in this project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the section towards Fr\u00f6schnitzgraben, less than 400m remains to be bored before the second is achieved, while around 300m needs to be dug towards Gloggnitz.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Semmering-Base-Tunnel-First-breakthrough.jpg\" alt=\"Semmering Base Tunnel First breakthrough\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Completing five of them currently, the tunnel is being constructed from five locations, with 14 drives. The date of commencing work on the interior was 2020 and so far the concrete lining as been applied to 7km of tunnel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The determined date for completing this project is 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linking G\u00f6stritz and Fr\u00f6schnitzgraben, Austria\u2019s Semmering Base Tunnel has attained first breakthrough. TBM Carl that was still located in the Fr\u00f6schnitzgraben section of the tunnel faced with the miners in G\u00f6stritz, while a narrow passage in the cutting wheel allowed miners from the two construction sections to meet in the tunnel for the first time. At the moment the TBM is being dismantled. Achieving the excavation of 24km \u2013 around 90% \u2013 of the 27.3km twin-tube tunnel is the intended landmark in this project. In the section towards Fr\u00f6schnitzgraben, less than 400m remains to be bored before the second is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[373,1913,2108,2109,47],"class_list":["post-7506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-project-show-case","tag-austria","tag-first-breakthrough","tag-gostritz-and-froschnitzgraben","tag-semmering-base-tunnel-project","tag-tunneling","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506","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=7506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}