The Gotthard Tunnel (‹See Tfd›German: Gotthardtunnel, Italian: Galleria del San Gottardo) is a 15-kilometre-long (9.3 mi) railway tunnel that forms the...
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The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT; ‹See Tfd›German: Gotthard-Basistunnel, Italian: Galleria di base del San Gottardo, Romansh: Tunnel da basa dal Sogn Gottard)...
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The Gotthard Road Tunnel in Switzerland runs from Göschenen in the canton of Uri at its northern portal, to Airolo in Ticino to the south, and is 16.9...
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the Gotthard Rail Tunnel (1882), the Gotthard Road Tunnel (1980) and the Gotthard Base Tunnel (2016). With the Lötschberg to the west, the Gotthard is...
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highest standard railway in Switzerland, penetrates the Alps using the Gotthard Tunnel at 1,151 metres (3,776 ft) above sea level. The line then descends...
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Airolo (section St Gotthard Tunnel Memorial)
Gotthard Pass. Both the Gotthard rail tunnel, on the important Gotthard railway linking northern and southern Europe, and the Gotthard road tunnel, on...
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Tunnels traversing the Saint-Gotthard Massif in Switzerland: Gotthard (Rail) Tunnel, 15km railway culmination tunnel (1882) Gotthard Road Tunnel, 17km...
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road tunnel is considerably less prone to traffic jams than the St. Gotthard Tunnel.[citation needed] The old name Vogelberg may refer to the migratory...
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Pass: Gotthard Rail Tunnel (1882) Gotthard Road Tunnel (1980) Gotthard Base Tunnel (2016, part of the NRLA) Gotthard railway line, a trans-alpine railway...
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second-longest road tunnel but unlike the Gotthard Tunnel which crosses the Alps completely north to south, the Seelisberg Tunnel is situated only in...
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NRLA (redirect from AlpTransit Gotthard rail link)
including three new base tunnels several hundred metres below the existing apex tunnels, the 57-kilometre (35 mi) Gotthard Base Tunnel, the 35-kilometre (22 mi)...
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the canton of Uri in Switzerland. It sits at the northern end of the Gotthard tunnel. The Göschenen riots (1875) saw Urner troops opening fire on Italian...
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line 2 "Project data – raw construction Gotthard Base Tunnel" (PDF). Lucerne, Switzerland: AlpTransit Gotthard Ltd. 1 June 2016. Archived (PDF) from the...
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the current longest railway tunnel in the world, the 57 km (40 mi) Gotthard Base Tunnel. It has been estimated that the tunnel, if constructed, will cost...
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Gotthard Base Tunnel, in Switzerland, had a diameter of about 9 metres (30 ft). A larger TBM was built to bore the Green Heart Tunnel (Dutch: Tunnel Groene...
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Principal passes of the Alps (section Road tunnels)
travel through the passes and tunnels supplemented passes at the Col de Tenda, the Mont Cenis, the Simplon and the St Gotthard. Alps List of highest paved...
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the tunnel, but more frequently on the northern flank. The difficulty with driving through the St. Gotthard tunnel is that it is a motorway tunnel with...
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of the tunnel with traditional blasting methods and only drill a small part using a faster tunnel boring machine (TBM). Both the CBT and Gotthard Base Tunnels...
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Schöllenenbahn) extends to Göschenen, at the northern end of the Gotthard Rail Tunnel. The network is an adhesion railway but using Abt rack assistance...
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of Göschenen in the canton of Uri. During the construction of the Gotthard tunnel the population of Göschenen rose a few times. The construction workers...
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toll-free St Gotthard Tunnel and Simplon Pass offer more direct or at least faster routes. This and the toll ensure that the Grand San Bernard Tunnel rarely...
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after the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland, opened in 2016. The tunnel was constructed using conventional construction methods, including tunnel boring...
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Alfred Escher (section Gotthard railway)
prompting him to resign as chairman of the Gotthard Rail Company in 1878. When the builders of the Gotthard tunnel broke through in 1880, he was not invited...
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mountain passes List of the highest Swiss passes Gotthard Tunnel Gotthard of Hildesheim Saint-Gotthard Massif "IVS-Fachstelle des Bundes – Kantonshefte...
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the Alps via the Gotthard Line through the Gotthard Base Tunnel (Milano-Chiasso-Lugano-Luzern/Zurich-Basel line) and the Simplon Tunnel (Domodossola to...
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Lugano, crossing the Swiss Alps from North to South through the Gotthard crest tunnel. Until 2017, the train was known as the William Tell Express (‹See...
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through the 57 kilometre-long Gotthard Base Tunnel. As a consequence, the Giruno is also referred to as the "Gotthard train". The 11-car units operate...
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the Simplon Tunnel was also the lowest direct Alpine crossing for 110 years, until the opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in 2016. The tunnel has a maximum...
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artillery fort. Fort Stuei Saint Gotthard Tunnel South Portal monitored the original south entrance to the Gotthard Rail Tunnel. Portions of the original installation...
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eponymous Gotthard Pass, lying at the heart of the massif, is the main route from north to south (excluding tunnels). The region of the Gotthard lies at...
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