Schelde River Tunnel
tunnel, Belgium
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innovations in tunnel construction
- In tunnels and underground excavations: Modern practice
…has been greatly enlarged—the 1969 Schelde River tunnel in Antwerp, Belg., used precast sections 328 feet long by 33 feet high by 157 feet wide. This unusually large width accommodates two highway tubes of three lanes each, one two-track railroad tube, and one bicycle tube. Particularly unusual was a 1963…
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