Stretching 35 miles under the Alps, the Gotthard Base Tunnel is the pinnacle of tunnel engineering. More than just a ...

Wearing a red hard hat and carrying a backpack with an emergency oxygen tank, I’m sweating as I get a rare look at the newest wonder of the world—the 35.4-mile Gotthard Base Tunnel ...

Switzerland just opened the longest and deepest train tunnel in the world; a $12 billion project that took 17 years to complete. Produced by Lamar Salter Follow BI Video On Twitter More from Tech ...

Quiet, neutral, traditionally aloof Switzerland has become a main ... Of the 2,000 or so miners working on the Gotthard Base Tunnel, none are women. Over the years the sectors linked up, one ...

The Defence Ministry said the explosives, which have been kept at the Gotthard as part of Switzerland’s traditional ... fair distance away from the actual tunnel. He also pointed out that ...

The deepest known point in a cave is in Krubera Cave in Georgia. Switzerland's Gotthard Base Tunnel is the deepest railway tunnel. Mponeng in South Africa is the world's deepest gold mine.

Entitled “A century of Italians in Switzerland”, the book documents ... Although many Italians arrived in 1870 to help build the Gotthard Tunnel, fellow countrymen had begun making their ...

laying the ballastless track in the Gotthard Base Tunnel is particularly demanding in terms of logistics and complexity. The project required bespoke equipment, and Transtec Gotthard therefore ...

The Zimmerberg Base Tunnel is therefore a project of ... the Zimmerberg Tunnel the fourth longest rail tunnel in Switzerland after the Gotthard, Lötschberg and Simplon, but ahead of the Vereina.

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