The Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail link (USBRL) project achieved a major milestone last week by breaking through T-14 tunnel between Sangaldan and Sawalkote stations on the Katra-Banihal section.
An engineer working for IRCON from Awantipora in Kashmir named Indu Paul Kaur performed the groundbreaking ceremony for the tunnel.
The main tunnel plus the evacuation tunnel make up the 6.284 km long T-14 tunnel. The tunnel’s endpoints are in the Rambanand Reasi districts, respectively.
According to ShobhanChaudhuri, general manager of Northern Railways, the tunnel was built utilising the NATM (New Austrian Tunneling Method) approach, which is an observational and sequential construction method.
