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The Paradiso Railway Tunnel construction project, completed in December 2020, opens the next phase of Switzerland s crucial Gotthard railway line to standardized freight cars. A shotcrete mixture containing PENETRON ADMIX was applied to ensure the impermeability of the new railway tunnel walls.
EAST SETAUKET, N.Y. (PRWEB) March 11, 2021 The Paradiso Railway Tunnel construction project, completed in December 2020, opens the next phase of Switzerland s crucial Gotthard railway line to standardized freight cars. A shotcrete mixture containing PENETRON ADMIX was applied to ensure the impermeability of the new railway tunnel walls.
In operation since 1874, the dimensions of the Paradiso Tunnel (757 m/2,500 feet long) did not allow the four-meter (13 feet) corner height needed to accommodate the standardized freight containers that are transported by rail across Europe. The double-track railway tunnel connects the Swiss municipalities of Paradiso and Lugano (Canton Ticino) an