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The Albis Tunnel is a railway tunnel in the Canton of Zug and the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland which opened in 1897. It crosses the Albis and connects Sihlbrugg railway station to Litti near Baar. At a length of 3,360 metres (11,020 ft), [note 1] it was the second longest railway tunnel of Switzerland at the time of its opening. As it is only ...
funicular railway, entirely in tunnel Furka Base Tunnel: 15.407: rail: Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn Furka–Oberalp line: with car transport Furka Summit Tunnel: 1.858: rail: Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway: superseded by the Furka Base Tunnel, now used by a heritage railway Giswil Tunnel: 2.066: road: A8 motorway: Girsberg Tunnel: 1.770: road: A7 ...
The Munt la Schera Tunnel is a single lane road tunnel located in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It connects the Engadin valley with Lago di Livigno, through Munt la Schera. Completed in 1965, the tunnel is 3,394 metres (11,135 ft) in length. [1] The tunnel was built to transport building materials for the construction of the Punt dal Gall dam.
The tunnel was built roughly parallel to the old railway tunnel, with portals a few hundred metres away from those of the railway. Prior to the opening of the tunnel, cars were transported through the nearby railway tunnel on car shuttle trains. Following the catastrophic fire in the road tunnel in 2001, car shuttle trains resumed operations ...
The Albula Tunnel is a major feature of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), an extensive metre-gauge network in the southeast of Switzerland that was launched during 1889. [4] The railway's management had placed a significant emphasis on the line being attractive to the growing tourism market, thus the line traverses the northern valleys in a deliberately spectacular manner.
The total cost of the Vereina Tunnel reportedly came to CHF 670 million. [6] On 19 November 1999, a ceremony was held, attended by various officials such as the then Federal Councillor and Transport Minister Moritz Leuenberger, to celebrate the official opening of the Vereina Tunnel. [2] Three days later, the first scheduled trains traversed ...
The Bubenholz Tunnel is a motorway tunnel in the Swiss canton of Zurich. It forms part of the A51 motorway , which links the A1 motorway with Zurich Airport . The tunnel is 550 metres (1,800 ft) long.
The Lötschberg Tunnel is a 14.61 km (9.08 mi) long railway tunnel on the Lötschberg Line, which connects Spiez and Brig at the northern end of the Simplon Tunnel cutting through the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. Its ends are at the towns of Kandersteg (2 km away) in the canton of Bern and Goppenstein in the canton of Valais. [2]