Thousands of feet beneath the Swiss Alps, a massive engineering project years in the making is reaching its final stages after a huge new tunnel was opened. The Ceneri Base Tunnel, just short of 25 ...

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The ARGE Tunnel Cannstatt, part of the Stuttgart 21 sub-project, is currently running two Liebherr R 944 C Tunnel models and an R 924 Compact Tunnel model to construct the mainline railway in Bad ...

The 53.85km Seikan tunnel in Japan is the longest and deepest rail tunnel in the world. It passes through Tsugaru Strait connecting the Hokkaido and Honshu islands. It was built 100m below the seabed ...

An undersea rail tunnel linking Helsinki and Tallinn has been on the cards for almost a decade, with multiple studies assessing its potential for socio-economic development for the two capital cities.

This story appears in the March 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. When the Welsh chronicler Adam of Usk traveled over Switzerland's wild and remote Gotthard Pass by oxcart on his way to Rome ...

GENEVA – Capping a mammoth 17-year, $12 billion project, Switzerland has built the world's longest railway tunnel: The Gotthard Base Tunnel. Here's a look at it and others among the longest railway ...