List of tunnels in Switzerland
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This list of tunnels in Switzerland includes any road, rail or waterway tunnel
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Tunnel
A tunnel is an underground passageway, completely enclosed except for openings for egress, commonly at each end.A tunnel may be for foot or vehicular road traffic, for rail traffic, or for a canal. Some tunnels are aqueducts to supply water for consumption or for hydroelectric stations or are sewers...
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Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
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- Baregg TunnelBaregg TunnelThe Baregg Tunnel is a motorway tunnel in Switzerland, and forms part of the A1 motorway from Geneva to St. Margrethen.The tunnel is 1.1 km long.It lies in the vicinity of city of Baden, Switzerland....
(A1A1 (Switzerland)The A1 is a motorway in Switzerland. It follows Switzerland's main east-west axis, from St. Margrethen in northeastern Switzerland's canton of St. Gallen through to Geneva in southwestern Switzerland...
) - Belchen TunnelBelchen TunnelThe Belchen Tunnel is a motorway tunnel in Switzerland, and forms part of the A2 motorway from Basel to Chiasso. It is 3.2 km long, and lies in the northern part of Switzerland. It links Eptingen in the canton of Basel-Country with Hägendorf in the Canton of Solothurn. The tunnel was built in the...
(A2A2 (Switzerland)The A2 is a motorway in Switzerland. It forms Switzerland's main north-south axis from Basel to Chiasso, meandering with a slight drift toward the east....
) - Bözberg TunnelBözberg TunnelThe Bözberg Tunnel is a motorway tunnel in Switzerland, and forms part of the A3 motorway from Basel to Sargans.The tunnel is long.It lies in a hilly area between Frick and Baden, in Aargau....
(A3A3 (Switzerland)The A3 is a motorway in northeast Switzerland, running diagonally from France toward the southeast border, and passing by Zurich on the way. The total length of the A3 motorway spans roughly , but parts of the road share sections of the A1 and A2 motorways....
) - Bubenholz TunnelBubenholz TunnelThe Bubenholz Tunnel is a motorway tunnel in Switzerland, and forms part of the A51 motorway around Zurich Airport.The tunnel is around 600 metres long.The tunnel replaces several overpasses which existed until the early 2000s...
(A51) - San Bernardino (road tunnel)San Bernardino (road tunnel)The San Bernardino road tunnel is a road tunnel on the A13 motorway/expressway in southeastern Switzerland, completed in 1967 and replacing the San Bernardino Pass road. It begins near the town of San Bernardino, Graubünden and ends north in Hinterrhein....
(A13A13 (Switzerland)The A13 is a motorway, at times an Autostrasse , which runs from St. Margrethen in northeastern Switzerland through to Ascona in southern Switzerland, crossing the main chain of the Alps in the Grisons area. It is the southern half of European route E43.- Construction :The A13 started life as a...
) - Crapteig Tunnel (A13A13 (Switzerland)The A13 is a motorway, at times an Autostrasse , which runs from St. Margrethen in northeastern Switzerland through to Ascona in southern Switzerland, crossing the main chain of the Alps in the Grisons area. It is the southern half of European route E43.- Construction :The A13 started life as a...
) - Cholfirst TunnelCholfirst TunnelThe Cholfirst Tunnel is a tunnel in Switzerland, and forms part of the Autostrasse A4.The tunnel is 1.26 km long and has three lanes . There is no central reservation....
(A4A4 (Switzerland)The A4 motorway in Switzerland begins from Schaffhausen, in northern Switzerland, and travels southward into central Switzerland. of A4 is: Bargen - Schaffhausen - Winterthur - Zürich - Central Switzerland.- Route description :...
) - D'Arrissoules Tunnel (A1A1 (Switzerland)The A1 is a motorway in Switzerland. It follows Switzerland's main east-west axis, from St. Margrethen in northeastern Switzerland's canton of St. Gallen through to Geneva in southwestern Switzerland...
) - Girsberg TunnelGirsberg TunnelThe Girsberg Tunnel is a motorway tunnel in Switzerland, and forms part of the A7 motorway from Winterthur to Kreuzlingen and the border to Germany.The tunnel is around 1.8 km long.It lies in the northeastern part of the canton of Thurgau....
(A7A7 (Switzerland)The A7 is a motorway which runs from Winterthur in northeastern Switzerland through to Kreuzlingen, a border town with Konstanz ....
) - Glion TunnelGlion TunnelThe Glion Tunnel is a two-gallery vehicular tunnel running underneath Montreux in Switzerland. It carries autoroute A9, which links the Vaud canton to the Valais, and was placed in service in November 1970...
(A9) - St. Gotthard Tunnel (A2A2 (Switzerland)The A2 is a motorway in Switzerland. It forms Switzerland's main north-south axis from Basel to Chiasso, meandering with a slight drift toward the east....
) - Gotthard Base TunnelGotthard Base TunnelThe Gotthard Base Tunnel is a new railway tunnel beneath the Swiss Alps, expected to open in 2016. With a route length of and a total of of tunnels, shafts and passages, it is the world's longest rail tunnel, surpassing the Japanese Seikan Tunnel....
finished around 2017 - Gubrist TunnelGubrist TunnelThe Gubrist Tunnel is a 3.2 km long motorway tunnel in Switzerland, and forms part of the A20 motorway .It lies west of the city of Zurich, in a hilly area. It is named after the hill of Gubrist, which is nearby....
(A20) - Kerenzerberg TunnelKerenzerberg TunnelThe Kerenzerberg Tunnel is a motorway tunnel in Switzerland, and forms part of the A3 motorway from Basel to Sargans. The tunnel is approximately 5.8 km long and it lies southwest of Lake Walen....
(A3A3 (Switzerland)The A3 is a motorway in northeast Switzerland, running diagonally from France toward the southeast border, and passing by Zurich on the way. The total length of the A3 motorway spans roughly , but parts of the road share sections of the A1 and A2 motorways....
) - Lötschberg Base TunnelLötschberg Base TunnelThe Lötschberg Base Tunnel is a railway tunnel on the BLS Lötschbergbahn's Lötschberg Line cutting through the Alps of Switzerland some below the existing Lötschberg Tunnel. It is currently the world's longest land tunnel and accommodates passenger and freight trains. It runs between Frutigen,...
- Lötschberg TunnelLötschberg TunnelThe Lötschberg Tunnel is a long railway tunnel on the Lötschberg Line, which connects Spiez and Brig at the northern end of the Simplon Tunnel cutting through the Alps of Switzerland. Its ends are at the towns of Kandersteg in the Canton of Berne and Goppenstein in the Canton of...
- Lopper TunnelLopper TunnelThe Lopper Tunnel is a tunnel in Switzerland, and forms part of the Autostrasse A8.The tunnel is 1,562 metres long and has two lanes . There is no central reservation.It lies in central Switzerland....
(A8) - Mappo-Morettina Tunnel (LocarnoLocarnoLocarno is the capital of the Locarno district, located on the northern tip of Lake Maggiore in the Swiss canton of Ticino, close to Ascona at the foot of the Alps. It has a population of about 15,000...
) - Milchbuck TunnelMilchbuck TunnelThe Milchbuck Tunnel is a motor road tunnel in Switzerland, and forms part of the A1L motorway from Zürich Schwamendingen to Zürich Letten.The tunnel, constructed in 1978, is long....
(A1L) - Rosenberg Tunnel (A1A1 (Switzerland)The A1 is a motorway in Switzerland. It follows Switzerland's main east-west axis, from St. Margrethen in northeastern Switzerland's canton of St. Gallen through to Geneva in southwestern Switzerland...
) - Sachseln TunnelSachseln TunnelThe Sachseln Tunnel is a tunnel in Switzerland, and forms part of the Autostrasse A8 from the Lopper intersection to Interlaken. The tunnel is 5.2 km long. It lies to the southeast of the Lake of Sarnen . The tunnel was completed in 1997. Speed limit inside is 80 km/h....
(A8) - Schöneich TunnelSchöneich TunnelThe Schöneich Tunnel is a motorway tunnel in Switzerland, and forms part of the A1L motorway in the city of Zurich between Zurich Schwamendingen and Zurich Letten.The tunnel is around 600 metres long....
(A1L) - Seelisberg TunnelSeelisberg TunnelThe Seelisberg Tunnel is a motorway tunnel in Switzerland, and forms part of the A2 motorway from Basel to Chiasso.The tunnel is around 9 km long.It lies in the southeastern part of the Lake of Lucerne....
(A2A2 (Switzerland)The A2 is a motorway in Switzerland. It forms Switzerland's main north-south axis from Basel to Chiasso, meandering with a slight drift toward the east....
) - Simplon TunnelSimplon TunnelThe Simplon Tunnel is an Alpine railway tunnel that connects the Swiss town of Brig with Domodossola in Italy, though its relatively straight trajectory does not run under Simplon Pass itself. It actually consists of two single-track tunnels built nearly 20 years apart...
- Vereina TunnelVereina TunnelThe Vereina Tunnel is a railway tunnel situated in eastern Switzerland, which at 19,058 m is the longest tunnel on the Swiss RhB railway network as well as the world's longest metre gauge railway tunnel...