Geneva, Jun 1 (EFE).Geneva, Jun 1 (EFE). — The world’s longest and deepest railway tunnel, crossing under Switzerland’s St. Gotthard Massif, opened on Wednesday. Swiss Confederation President Johann ...

Opened in 1988, it holds the title of the world’s longest undersea rail tunnel and accommodates both high-speed and regional ...

Switzerland’s Alpine region, aka the Swiss Alps, is no doubt one of the world’s most beautiful places, best known for its picturesque snowy peaks and being a haven for adrenaline junkies. Despite its ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - The Gotthard road tunnel under the Alps in Switzerland was closed for hours on Wednesday after a truck and a passenger car collided, killing two people and damaging the key transit ...

On October 24th, 2001, two trucks collided deep inside the Gotthard Road Tunnel in Switzerland, igniting a devastating fire ...

The world gets a little smaller on Wednesday with the unveiling of the longest and deepest railway tunnel ever constructed — a feat of engineering under the Alps that will slash journey times across ...

SEDRUN, Switzerland — Swiss engineers broke through a final 6 feet (180 centimeters) of rock deep in the Alpine mountains on Friday, linking the world’s longest rail tunnel. The 35 mile (57 kilometer) ...

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 ...

Seventeen years after construction crews started boring beneath the Swiss Alps, the world’s longest, deepest tunnel officially opened Wednesday. Fittingly for a project billed as Switzerland’s ...

Nexans, in partnership with Swissgrid, will install a high-voltage line in a road tunnel, a pioneering project in Europe. Paris, May 14, 2025 – Nexans, in partnership with Swissgrid, Switzerland’s ...

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 ...

In this photo provided by the Cantonal police Uri the accident site is pictured after a collision between a car and a truck in the Gotthard tunnel near the village of Hospental, Switzerland, Wednesday ...