The Gotthard Base Tunnel currently holds the world record for being the world's longest and deepest railway tunnel, spanning the 35.5-mile distance between the cantons of Uri and Ticino.

A busy A-road is expected to be closed overnight following a serious crash. Emergency services are at the scene on the A299 Ramsgate Tunnel following the collision. Avoid getting stuck on Kent's ...

Dubbed the construction project of the century, the Gotthard Base Tunnel spans more than 35 miles and took more than 17 years to build. The tunnel, which opened on June 1, runs under the Alps and ...

An investigation has been launched after a high-speed train derailed in Kent. The train was travelling at a low speed in a sidings at Ramsgate railway maintenance depot on Thursday night when it ...

Thousands of feet under the Swiss Alps, a new high-speed, high-capacity railway has been completed. The Ceneri Base Tunnel and the Gotthard Base Tunnel – the world’s longest railway tunnel ...

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The tunnel is part of the 119km Quazigund to Baramulla railway line which became operational in October 2009. The Pir Panjal tunnel reduced the distance between Quazigund in the north to Banihal in ...

Switzerland on Wednesday was inaugurating the 35.4 mile Gotthard Railway Tunnel, a major engineering achievement deep under snow-capped peaks carried out over 17 years at a cost of 12.2 billion ...

The U.S. government has allocated billions to revamp a century-old railway tunnel, and is constructing a new tunnel to service one of the most important rail routes on the East Coast. According to ...

In 2013, the trial run of the country's longest railway tunnel was conducted smoothly, when a train covered the 11 km distance in 20 minutes. It took 30 minutes to cover the entire distance of 17. ...

The first steam train puffed into Ramsgate Harbour Station in 1863, as part of the Kent Coast Railway. The new line and station involved a three-quarter-mile-long tunnel bored into Ramsgate's ...

An investigation has been launched after a high-speed train derailed in Kent. The train was travelling at a low speed in a sidings at Ramsgate railway maintenance depot on Thursday night when it ...