Swiss engineer Carl Eduard Gruner first imagined it in 1947: a massive tunnel, unprecedented in length, buried a mile and a half under Switzerland's symbolic Gotthard mountain range. Nearly seven ...

Tunnels are used to carry traffic through some of the most extreme terrain on the planet and they help ease journeys with reduced travel time. While most tunnels offer a short underground burst of ...

The Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland has fully reopened for rail operations more than a year after it was closed for repairs following the derailment of a freight train in August 2023. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 00 longest tunnels opener laerda Tunnels are used to carry traffic through some of the most extreme terrain on the planet and they ...

Switzerland’s Gotthard Base Tunnel is the longest railway tunnel ever built, but it’s part of a global race to carve faster rail routes through mountains and under oceans. This video counts down the ...

Hannover – KEYMILE’s multi-service access node UMUX is one of the key elements in the axle counter application in the new Gotthard base tunnel and makes a vital contribution to line and train safety.

Mountains once defined human limits, but 19th-century tunnels began a shift. Modern base tunnels, like the Gotthard, ignore ...

SEDRUN, Switzerland - Swiss engineers broke through a final 6 feet of rock deep in the Alpine mountains on Friday, linking the world's longest rail tunnel. The 35-mile Gotthard Base Tunnel in southern ...

SEDRUN, Switzerland -- Workers hugged, cheered and set off fireworks as the huge drill broke through the last stretch of rock deep in the Swiss Alps. There was delight at the end of the tunnel -- the ...