December 13: Set up of the north side gantry crane continues, hopefully to be in service soon. Ongoing excavation of the north side, with again a line up of York1 dump trucks on King Street waiting to be loaded.

On the south side of King Street, more work on reinforcing the excavation's side walls.

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January 30, 2025:

North side gantry crane is still not yet operational, although it looks like it might be getting close. The short-term rental Mammoet mobile crane is still on site.

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That's curious...I had assumed they where excavating the stations first before connecting them up with tunneling. This photo suggests they are way more advanced on the latter than I had anticipated. Or is this photo of an unrelated project?
 
That's curious...I had assumed they where excavating the stations first before connecting them up with tunneling. This photo suggests they are way more advanced on the latter than I had anticipated. Or is this photo of an unrelated project?
One shaft access is sufficient for cavern works. They bring all the equipment including the road header parts down through the North shaft and assemble them at the bottom. The cavern run beside shafts so work can advance in parallel with shaft excavation. This picture shows the cavern looking South, with the unexcavated part on the left is the connection to the South shaft left for a later phase.
They want the cavern to be ready as early as possible to accommodate the coming TBMs.
 

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