Costing more than €12 billion, this monumental project has reshaped Europe’s transport network: the longest railway tunnel ...
SEDRUN, Switzerland--I'm a kilometer inside one of the Alps and nearly 800 meters below the surface, and it's pitch black. And I'm falling at 14 meters a second. But this isn't a story of fire and ...
National railway operator SBB said Wednesday that 16 cars had jumped the tracks in last Thursday's derailment and some badly damaged freight cars remain stuck inside the 57.1 kilometer (35.5 mile) ...
Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016 is the opening of one of the world’s engineering marvels: the Gotthard Base Tunnel under the Swiss Alps, the world’s longest and deepest railway tunnel. The 35.3-mile-long (57 km ...
Seventeen years of construction on the world’s current longest tunnel, through the Alps, formally ends on June 1, when the Swiss Federal Railways takes charge of the 57-kilometer-long, twin-bore ...