Construction on the infrastructure supporting the 56km long Brenner base rail tunnel (in the planning stage), got under way yesterday (12 August), as work began on the 7.7km long Stans-Terfens railway tunnel in the Austrian province of the Tyrol.
A consortium, consisting of Strabag, Züblin and Hochtief, is constructing the US$160M double track single-tube tunnel, which forms part of the first 40km of access line to the planned Brenner base tunnel. There are about another 30km of tunnel still to be built on this route, construction of which will start in the next 18 months.
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