Engineers cut and run as tunnel excavations are completed

29 October 2009

Work on the New Tyne Crossing – the project to put a second vehicle tunnel under the River Tyne – saw excavations for the cut-and-cover tunnel sections completed last week.

The land-based cut-and-cover tunnel runs through Jarrow and East Howdon. With excavations of the tunnel trench complete, construction of the new tunnel’s roof and floor slabs can proceed in earnest.

Completion of the cut-and-cover work represents 96% of the land excavations required for the new tunnel. Work is currently under way on the remaining 4% of land excavations required for the two short sections of sprayed concrete lining tunnel in Jarrow.

Trevor Jackson, managing director of TT2, the project’s concessionaire, said: ‘We’re one step closer to opening the new tunnel in 2011.’

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