Eifel line's Kuckuckslay Tunnel widened for double track
- Location
- Kyll valley near Kordel/Trier-Ehrang, Eifel line, Rhineland-Palatinate · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Project
- Kuckuckslay Tunnel renewal (track-spacing widening)
- Investment
- not specified
- Status
- 2021 closure/construction phase completed (overall build ran to 2022 per contractor)
The 450-metre, two-track Kuckuckslay Tunnel on the Eifel line (Kalscheuren–Ehrang route), built in 1871 in the Kyll valley near Kordel, was renewed using the "tunnel-within-tunnel" method to widen the track spacing from 3.5 to 4 metres. The roughly three-week full closure to switch to two-track operation ended on 9 August 2021 (finishing work ran until September 2021 per the state authority SGD Nord); the client was DB Netz AG, with construction carried out by a joint venture of PORR and August Reiners. According to the contractor, overall construction ran from 2019 to 2022; no investment figure is stated in the available sources.
Source: hegemann-reiners.de ↗ · Archived copy ↗
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