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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.
Letten Tunnel: 2.093: rail: Swiss Federal Railways Lake Zürich right-bank line: superseded by Hirschengraben Tunnel, now disused Lötschberg Base Tunnel: 34.57: rail: BLS AG Lötschberg line: opened on 14 June 2007 Lötschberg Tunnel: 14.612: rail: BLS AG Lötschberg line: Lopper I Rail Tunnel: 1.186: rail: Zentralbahn Brünig line: Lopper II ...
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 ...
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Gotthard Road Tunnel (road tunnel, 16.9 km) Ceneri Base Tunnel (railway tunnel, 15.4 km) Furka Base Tunnel (narrow gauge railway tunnel with car transportation, 15.4 km) Gotthard Railway Tunnel (railway tunnel, 15.0 km) Lötschberg Tunnel (railway tunnel, 14.6 km) Zimmerberg Base Tunnel (railway tunnel, 9.4 km) Seelisberg Tunnel (road tunnel, 9 ...
Gotthard Rail Tunnel: Lepontine Alps, Switzerland 15,003 m (9.322 mi) 1882 Longest transit tunnel until Simplon Tunnel was opened. Metro Gwangju Metro: Line 1 (Sotae station–Dosan station) Gwangju, South Korea 15,000 m (9.321 mi) 2004 Railway Nakayama Tunnel: Gunma Prefecture, Japan 14,857 m (9.232 mi) 1982 Part of the Jōetsu Shinkansen
The 57.1-kilometre (35.5 mi) Gotthard Base Tunnel is the world's longest and deepest traffic tunnel, [17] [18] [19] as was the original 15-kilometre (9.3 mi) Gotthard Tunnel at its completion in 1881. It consists of two parallel single-track tunnels, connected by 178 cross-connections.
SBB EuroCity entering the Gotthard Base Tunnel. High-speed rail in Switzerland consists of two new lines and three new base tunnels, including the world's longest railway and deepest traffic tunnel: [1] the Gotthard Base Tunnel whose length is 57 km (35 mi).