Rammersberg tunnel

Rammersberg tunnel
	An ICE 3 leaves the south portal
traffic connection	Nantenbacher curve
length	1362 m
Number of tubes	1
construction
Client	German Federal Railroad
start of building	1991
business
operator	DB network
release	1994
location
Coordinates
North portal	49 ° 59 ′ 45 " N , 9 ° 42 ′ 13" E
South portal	49 ° 59 ′ 2 " N , 9 ° 42 ′ 16" E

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Rammersberg tunnel is a 1362 m long railway tunnel on the Nantenbacher bend in Bavaria . It crosses under the Rammersberg south of Gemünden am Main and therefore bears his name.

The tunnel takes up two tracks on a slab track , which can be driven on as planned at 200 km / h.

Location and course

The route of the 1362 m long structure describes a right curve in a southerly direction. The gradient rises continuously at 12.5 per mil. The structure penetrates layers of shell limestone .

history

The tunnel was built using shotcrete . Construction work began on September 1, 1991. The tunnel was driven from south to north in order to minimize the impact on a nature reserve at the north portal. A working group was commissioned . Inge Keller, the wife of the mayor of Karlstadt am Main , acted as tunnel sponsor .

After nine months of driving, the tunnel was knocked through as the last of the Nantenbacher curve.

The building was October 22, 1991 struck and June 23, 1992 by beaten . The structure was put into operation in 1994 as part of the Nantenbach curve.

Web links

Route 5216: Rammersberg tunnel . Pictures on eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Deutsche Bundesbahn (Ed.), Main Department Track Projects of the Federal Railway Directorate Nuremberg: Over the river and through the mountains: The connecting curve Nantenbach . Brochure (16 A4 pages), Nuremberg, 1993, pp. 10, 12.

↑ ^a ^b Heinz-Dietrich Könnings: The tunnels of the connecting curve Nantenbach . In: Die Bundesbahn , ISSN 0007-5876 , 10/1991, pp. 987-991.

↑ ^a ^b messages . In: Die Bahn informs . No. 4 , 1992, ZDB -ID 2003143-9 , p. 16-18 .

[db-1993-1] Deutsche Bundesbahn (Ed.), Main Department Track Projects of the Federal Railway Directorate Nuremberg: Over the river and through the mountains: The connecting curve Nantenbach . Brochure (16 A4 pages), Nuremberg, 1993, pp. 10, 12.