Tunnel de Marseille
| Tunnel de Marseille | ||||
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| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | LGV Méditerranée | |||
| place | Marseille | |||
| length | 7834 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | SNCF | |||
| start of building | 1995 | |||
| completion | 2001 | |||
| business | ||||
| operator | Réseau ferré de France | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| North portal | 43 ° 25 ′ 42 " N , 5 ° 19 ′ 47" E | |||
| South portal | 43 ° 21 ′ 36 " N , 5 ° 20 ′ 41" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Tunnel de Marseille is a tunnel on the LGV Méditerranée high-speed line in the French city of Marseille . With a length of 7,834 m, it is (as of 2012) the longest continuous tunnel on French soil.
The Tunnel de Marseille consists of four individual structures, the “Tunnel de Pennes-Mirabeau”, the “Covering Bellepeire”, the “Tunnel de Marseille” and the “Covering Saint-André”. These structures have a total length of 7834 m and are known as the Tunnel de Marseille. The coverings were carried out using the open construction method and later backfilled.
After the tunnel, the line reaches the old Paris – Marseille line , later the Marseille-Saint-Charles station . The maximum permissible speed is 160 km / h.
Individual evidence
literature
- TGV Méditerranée before the opening . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , Issue 2/2001, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 64 f.