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Qatar Rail completes 100km Doha metro tunnelling

DOHA, May 26, 2016

Qatar Rail has achieved a major milestone by completing 100 km of tunnelling across the city for its ambitious Doha Metro network and 41 per cent of the work related to the project.

With this achievement, 90 per cent of tunnelling has been done, with only 11 km more needed to complete all underground sections, said Qatar Rail chief executive Dr Saad Al Muhannadi.

He was speaking at a ceremony at Al Waab Station on the Gold Line to celebrate the completion of the 100 km of tunnelling.

The 100th km was crossed by a tunnel boring machine (TBM) on the southern section of the Red Line.

Project director for the Gold Line Samuel Adair McChesney and several other senior management and members of the Qatar Rail team joined the celebration.

Towards the end of this year, Qatar Rail expects to move from construction into systems installation as track, power supply and signalling starts to be installed, remarked Al Muhannadi.

"At this point, work will also start on the architectural finishes of the stations of Doha Metro," he added.

According to him, the first phase of the Doha Metro project is expected to be ready in 2020.

By 2030, all the three networks - Doha Metro, Lusail Tram and the long-distance rail, which will link Qatar with the GCC Rail network – are likely to be completed, stated Al Muhannadi.

With the completion of the first phase of the Doha Metro and Lusail Tram, Qatar Rail expects to offer 630,000 passenger trips per day by 2021. By then, 37 metro stations are expected to be ready, with an average journey time of three minutes between adjacent stations, it added.

Daily progress across Doha Metro project is now based on performance of 11 operational TBMs out of the record breaking 21 TBMs which began work on Doha Metro.
 
A month of significant achievement, Qatar Rail also saw the completion of tunneling on Doha Metro’s Gold Line with the final breakthrough last week at Msheireb station, said the statement from Qatar Rail.

The total operational length of the underground sections of the Gold Line is 15km, it stated.

On the key milestone, McChesney said: "I am extremely proud of the outstanding performance achieved by the six tunnel boring machines (TBMs) during the successful completion of all the tunneling works on the Gold Line project."
 
He pointed out that the TBMs set many records on their 22km journey across Doha, from the quickest manufacture, delivery and launch time; to the best progress achieved in a single day of 60m.

"I am especially proud that the tunnels have been built to a world class standard, with the very highest standards of Quality and Safety being achieved on all six of the TBM tunnel drives. This is all testament to the hard work and dedication of the specialist tunnel crews who diligently carried out the tunnelling works keeping the TBMs moving forward day and night," he stated.

Qatar Rail said the next major milestone it looks forward to celebrating is the completion of tunneling on Doha Metro’s longest line, the Red Line.-TradeArabia News Service




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