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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.
A second railway tunnel, the Gotthard Base Tunnel, was opened on 1 June 2016 after 17 years of construction; in comparison, it is considerably longer (57.1 km; namely the world's longest railway tunnel) and at an about 500 m lower elevation than the first Gotthard Tunnel, enabling trains to traverse the Central Alps on a flat and straight route ...
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 ...
After 17 years, the 35.5 mile train tunnel being called 'a masterpiece of timing, cost and policy' has finally opened. Swiss declare Alps tamed as Gotthard rail tunnel opens Skip to main content
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 ...
This category covers all tunnels in Switzerland, including road, rail and water tunnels. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: ...
The NRLA project is the centrepiece of the Central European rail network.. The New Railway Link through the Alps (NRLA; German: Neue Eisenbahn-Alpentransversale, NEAT, French: nouvelle ligne ferroviaire à travers les Alpes, NLFA, Italian: Nuova ferrovia transalpina, NFTA), is a Swiss construction project for faster north–south rail links across the Swiss Alps.
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 ...