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Weinberg Tunnel: 4.8: rail: Swiss Federal Railways Altstetten–Zürich–Oerlikon cross-city line: Wipkingen Tunnel: 1.2: rail: Swiss Federal Railways Zürich–Winterthur line: extended from 0.959 km in the 1990s Zermatt–Sunnegga Tunnel: 1.545: rail: SunneggaExpress: funicular railway, entirely in tunnel Zimmerberg Base Tunnel: 9.4: rail ...
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The pro-tunnel Avanti Initiative brought a referendum to voters in February 2004, which was rejected (by 62.8%). [11] The Swiss government announced in September 2013 it had approved a plan to upgrade the second tunnel into a full road tunnel in order to allow for the necessary reconstruction of the first road tunnel.
The Zimmerberg Base Tunnel (ZBT) was one such tunnel constructed under the initiative. [4] Phase I of the Zimmerberg Base Tunnel is a major feature of the route between Zürich and Thalwil. The tunnel was the longest double-track tunnel to have been constructed by Switzerland in over 100 years, a milestone in Swiss railway infrastructure. [5]
The Swiss federal railway operator, known by its German-language acronym SBB, said the damage from the Aug. 10 derailment in the Gotthard tunnel, Switzerland’s main north-south rail thoroughfare ...
As of 2016, the Gotthard Base Tunnel is the longest railway tunnel in the world. It is the third Swiss tunnel to bear this title, after the Gotthard Tunnel (15 km or 9.3 mi, 1882) and the Simplon Tunnel (19.8 km or 12.3 mi, 1905). [28] It is the third tunnel built under the Gotthard, after the Gotthard Tunnel and the Gotthard Road Tunnel.