Tunnel boring machine - Ostrava, Czech Republic - Preserved Machines on Public Display on Waymarking.com

Landek Park (visit link) is the largest mining museum in the Czech Republic.

The whole exhibition of the mining museum is located in the adits of the seam of an actual historical mine called Anselm.
The Anselm mine, closed down in 1991, was one of the oldest pits in the Ostrava coal district. It is now part of the mining museum opened in 1993. The museum features a 15-metre deep shaft and covers the years 1782 to 1990. To give the visitors an idea of what going down the shaft in a cage elevator was like, the bottom of the pit is projected onto the floor of the cage, as one of the tourist guides explains.

In front of museum is located a several mining machinery and equipment. The tunnel boring machine TVM 55 H is one of them.

Main parameters of the machine:
- boring profile of 6 m
- length of the machine body of 16 m
- length of the trailing gear of 290 m
- weight of the machine body of 315 tons
- total installed output of 873 kW
- thrust at the face of 6400 kN

Type of Machine: The tunnel boring machine Is there online documentation for this machine: [Web Link] Year the machine was built: Not listed Year the machine was put on display: Not listed

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