the tunnel

Leipzig is getting a tunnel!
It may qualify as the world's shortest undergroung railway, but it has been a long-standing dream to allow trains to pass through the city rather than making a long (at least 10 minutes) detour round the city centre and having to enter and reverse out of the terminus, and the money was available!
We are all greatly inconvenienced by the tunnelling but it is technologically interesting. The Old Market Square will also get a station and the construction site is fenced of with a series of interesting photos (more soon).
This one shows a station where a historic arch was in the way, so it has been slid (is that the past participle of slide) to one side and will later be slided (no I prefer slid) back to it original position.