Semmering Base Tunnel (Lot 2.1): celebration to mark start of work on the tunnel shafts
Dietlikon, 23 July 2015 – The two shafts that will allow tunnelling to proceed towards Gloggnitz and Mürzzuschlag are now being built at Lot 2.1 of the Semmering Base Tunnel in Fröschnitzgraben, Austria. Federal Minister Alois Stöger, State Governor Michael Schickhofer, State Councillor Karl Wilfing [...] one of the "largest and most technically demanding projects in Europe". He hoped that the next 10 years of construction work would go well and, above all, safely. He thanked the 400 or so workers who would ultimately be making the project a reality. For geological and logistical reasons, the Semmering[...]