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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.
The record-breaking 35-mile Gotthard Base Tunnel beneath the Swiss Alps is to remain closed to train passenger traffic for several months after a major derailment ripped up the track.
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 ...
superseded by the Furka Base Tunnel, now used by a heritage railway Giswil Tunnel: 2.066: road: A8 motorway: Girsberg Tunnel: 1.770: road: A7 motorway: Glion Tunnel: 1.350: road: A9 motorway: Gotthard Base Tunnel: 57.104: rail: Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard line: opened on 1 June 2016 Gotthard Rail Tunnel: 15.003: rail: Swiss Federal Railways ...
7 August – Sweden – A passenger train derailed between Iggesund and Hudiksvall due to the trackbed being washed out by floods, injuring three people. [174] 10 August – Switzerland – A freight train derailed in the Gotthard Base Tunnel, damaging 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) of track and closing the tunnel until September 2024. [175]
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