The first shield tunneling of Nanjing Metro Line 6 proceeded smoothly

On August 9, the first shield of Nanjing Metro Line 6 started off smoothly. This marks that Line 6 has entered the stage of shield tunneling in the interval tunnel, which is a key step in accelerating the overall construction of line 6.

At 9:28 a.m., with the "Pioneer" shield tunneling machine slowly turning, the first shield tunneling of Line 6 of Nanjing Subway started at the north end of Manshou Village Station. The shield starts from the left line of subway Line 6, from Wanshou Village Station to Yanyao Road Station, with a total length of 1.656 km.

According to reports, the current line 6 seven intervals, is the first interval started. In the next year, each interval will start to work. Nanjing metro line 6, 32.365 km south from the nanjing south railway station, via the south new town, the purple mountain, black ink, the swallow angeles and nanjing economic and technological development zone, in qixia hill, a total of 19 set up at the station, and has been operating, under construction and planning of the 13 lines change, after the use of the will and airport line of operations, is the nanjing city to the airport is most efficient channel.