Brenner Base Tunnel: Exploring the Periadriatic Seam

1?The TEN Axis from Berlin to Palermo The trans-border European priority scheme TEN Project No. 1 represents a roughly 2,200 km long high-speed railway route between Berlin/D and Palermo/I. Between...

Start of Tunnelling Works at South Exploratory Tunnel On 29 March 2019 tunnelling work for the fourth drilling of Lot H51 Pfons–Brenner began on the south exploratory tunnel, marked by a drilling...

Start of Tunnelling Works at South Exploratory Tunnel On 29 March 2019 tunnelling work for the fourth drilling of Lot H51 Pfons–Brenner began on the south exploratory tunnel, marked by a drilling...

1 General information on the Brenner Base Tunnel The Brenner Base Tunnel, according to the new Strategic planning of TEN-T policy (2014 to 2020), is a part of the future TEN No. 5 corridor Helsinki...

Around 158 km of the total of approx. 230 km of tunnel had been excavated by the end of August 2023. The BBT consists of two 8.1 m wide single track tunnels that run at a distance of 40–70 m. At...