Sentences with phrase «kilometres of tunnels»

This required building seven kilometres of tunnels through the mountains, and means that over half of the railway journey is spent in tunnels through the mountain.

Eight kilometres of tunnels for a voyage lasting a good hour, into the heart of darkness.

On average, each had 1.2 kilometres of tunnels and covered an area of 6919 square metres.

In one case, four colonies were linked together in a daisy chain spanning 7.2 kilometres of tunnels.

It currently comprises 16 dams, 145 kilometres of tunnels, 80 km of pipes and aqueducts.

The second link, on which engineers hope to begin work this year, comprises 16 kilometres of tunnel and bridges across the Øresund between Copenhagen and Sweden's second city, Malmö.

It had dug 16 of the 86 kilometres of tunnel, razed a town inhabited by 400 people, and imported thousands of physicists, computer scientists and engineers to the site.

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What's more, the tunnel is operating beyond its capacity for upwards of 13 hours each day, resulting in traffic congestion that often stretches for kilometres in each direction.

To pinpoint its position precisely, the researchers stopped traffic in one lane of a 10 - kilometre long highway tunnel for a week to place GPS receivers on either side.

It required the building of a deep tunnel forming a loop with a circumference of 30 kilometres, packed with unique equipment designed to the limit of current knowledge and engineering capability, staffed by some of the most qualified people on the planet.

The hills there rise very steeply, so workers will have to tunnel only about 2 kilometres horizontally to provide the laboratory with about 1300 metres of high - quality granite cover above.

Last year a court in Pau, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, blocked government plans to start construction of an 8 - kilometre tunnel at one end of the Aspe Valley.

These are interferometers each comprising of two tunnels, several kilometres long that form a giant «L' shape.

The longest tunnel stretched for eleven kilometres, feeding the water from the upper lake to the pressure pipelines: pipes a metre and a half in diameter that ran down the mountain to force the water from the upper lake to the thirsty turbines of the production facilities down in the valley.

When this flow occurs over a prolonged period of time the lava conduit can form a tunnel - like aperture or lava tube, which can conduct molten rock many kilometres from the vent without cooling appreciably.

The longest tunnel, just before the railway station at the village of Barog, spans more than a kilometre and at the time of its completion in the late nineteenth century was the longest rail tunnel in the world.

Although seven of the lines nine kilometres are spent in tunnels, the scenery that presents itself at the top is breathtaking.

The train from Kalka to Shimla covers a whopping 96 kilometres — traversing over 107 tunnels and lofty arched bridges, and a seemingly endless series of S - bends.

The Sydney CBD is located within 12 kilometres of the hotel and is accessible via the Lane Cove Tunnel and Gore Hill Freeway.

Three decades later the Swiss entrepreneur and railway - builder Adolf Guyer - Zeller began construction of the nine - kilometre Jungfraubahnline from Kleine Scheidegg to Jungfraujoch Station, which required the construction of a single tunnel through the Eiger and Mönch mountains.