Combatting the Sound of the Underground in London
Noise reduction is something that the boys and girls of the digital age hardly give a moment’s thought, but deep below London’s street, the very much analogue Tube…
Drilling tests for novel subterranean cargo rail starts in Switzerland
Cargo Sous Terrain (CST), the Swiss company working on underground rail freight transport, will start tunnel boring-related activities for the first time. Test drilling and geophysical measurements of…
Groundbreaking Swiss subterranean rail freight project gets legal basis
The Swiss Federal Council has approved the law on underground goods transport, which will come into force on 1 August. The law provides the legal grounds the implementation…
Underground rail freight line ‘best option for the Netherlands’
An underground freight railway near the port area of Rotterdam is considered the best long-term solution in terms of safely and urban development, a preliminary study commissioned by…