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Maintenance and management of undersea tunnel

Last updated on 20 September 2013 3:49

The Kanmon Railway Tunnel was built as the first undersea tunnel in the world. It contains 3.6 km of up-line and down-line tracks with an undersea portion of 1.1 km. Water currents in the area are powerful, and the thickness of the soil covering the tunnel is only 9 m...

Author(s): Takami Ito;Iwao Hidaka;Hiroyuki Sakai

Organisation(s): Kyushu Railway Company ; Railway Technical Research Institute ;

1999

Japan

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