The tunnel is in east Hessen between the stations of Fulda and Würzburg. Between the northern tunnel entrance of Kalbach (50° 24′ 22″N, 9° 39′3″E) and the southern end at Mottgers (50° 18′35″N, 9° 39′47″E) it crosses the Landrücken range which forms the Rhein-Weser drainage divide dividing the river basins of the Fulda and Main.
Description of tunneledit
The double-track Landrücken Tunnel was built using the New Austrian Tunnelling method working from the north portal, known as "Baulos Nord" and two side accesses ("Baulos Mitte" and "Baulos Süd"). In addition, three shafts were established for ventilation during tunnel boring.
The tunnel opened in 1988 with a total tunnel cross section of 100 to 110 square metres (1,100 to 1,200 sq ft) and a maximum 1.25% gradient. It surpassed the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Tunnel near Cochem as the longest railway tunnel in Germany.
tunnel cross section area: 100 to 110 m2 (1,100 to 1,200 sq ft)
steepest gradient: 1.25%
speed limit: 280 km/h (170 mph)
equipment: Electrified, LZBsignalling, "Zugfunk" radio, GSM-R, BOS-Funk, C-Netz (from 1992 to 2000), GSM900/1800 (T-mobile, Vodafone and Eplus since the middle of 2006), FM radio, wind direction measuring system, two emergency exits)
Accidentsedit
The ICE power head 401 511 after the collision. The photo was taken three days later at the operational train station of Mottgers, after the powerhead had been recovered.
On April 26, 2008, ICE train 885 was on its way from Hamburg to Munich with 170 people on board. At 9:05pm, it collided with a herd of sheep that had strayed into the tunnel. The train derailed at 215 kilometres per hour (134 mph) inside the tunnel. 25 people were injured and 12 of the 14 cars were derailed.[1]
Distelrasen-Tunneledit
A few kilometers west of the Landrücken Tunnel, the Distelrasen-Tunnel built in 1914, near Schlüchtern-Elm on the Kinzig Valley Railway, was the first railway to traverse the Landrücken drainage divide.
Referencesedit
^News in the Online paper of Fuldaer Zeitung. May 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
External linksedit
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