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  Kolkata metro fiasco: Data from TBM black box key to find operational lapses

    "One of the main functions of the TBM is to resist underground water pressure while it passes through aquifers. TBM "Chundee" may have had malfunctioned and allowed water to seep in, triggering the catastrophe that has affected scores of houses and rendered hundreds homel...

  Tags: Kolkata metro fiasco, Kolkata east-west line mess, KMRC, KMRC fiasco, KMRC mess

  1442 days ago

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  Kolkata East-West metro tunnel: Soil is tested to see if it can bear further stress of TBM boring

  After the collapse of houses which made more than 500 people homeless, Kolkata East-West metro line drama continues. Engineers said an analysis of the samples would reveal how soft the soil had become after the accident and whether it would be able to bear further stress once the tunnelling wo...

  Tags: KMRC, Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation, Bowbazar, soil test

  1675 days ago

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  Kolkata's East-West Metro clears first day of phase I trial run under the cloud of East-West Metro tunneling disaster on August 31 when the "TBM hit an aquifer" between Esplanade and Sealdah which is being still tackled... https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/east-west-metro-clears-...

  Tags: India, KolkataMetroRailCorporation, KMRC

  1653 days ago

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  East West Metro: "Shifting of tunnel boring machine will not cause further damage", experts tell Kolkata High Court. The high court had asked the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) to submit expert opinions by November 15 on the feasibility of moving a tunnel-boring machine at Bowbazar. ...

  Tags: India, KMRC, India, KMRC

  1622 days ago

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  East-West Metro tunnel boring machine has moved for the first time since the project came to a halt following a subsidence in Bowbazar on August 31 causing hundreds of people loosing their homes because of large cracks. Engineers say "the movement" (4meter advancement) of the TBM under the sup...

  Tags: KolkataMetroRailCorporation, Kolkata, KMRC, KolkataMetroRailCorporation, Kolkata, KMRC

  1614 days ago

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  #Kolkata East-West metro TBM's Bowbazar, collapse also collapses the plan for extending the route. The commissioning of East-West Metro’s Sealdah station, which officials think will make the route viable as more passengers will use the system rather than the fragmented run from Salt Lake Sector V...

  Tags: Kolkata, KMRC, India

  1611 days ago

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  Kolkata: A city’s dream takes shape 33 metres below the Hooghly river

    Always negative news, Bowbazar or not, come out about Kolkata's East-West tunnel. Never the news about achievements of Afcons in the difficult geology and environment. I think everyone should read this https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/a-citys-dream-takes-shape-...

  Tags: KMRC, Afcons, Afcons construction, India tunnels

  1512 days ago