A gold On 1 October 2015, following the permission by the Federal Office of Transport, the first tests on the entire length of the GBT were performed, with steadily increasing speed. At the end of the access tunnel, two vertical shafts lead 800 m (2,625 ft) down to the base tunnel level.

Since the 13th century, the 2,106-metre-high (6,909 ft) Gotthard Pass has been an important trade route from northern to southern Europe. A proposal to construct a functioning railway station, called The final breakthrough in the east tube occurred on 15 October 2010 at 14:17 +02:00.On 30 August 2013, the tunnel was entirely traversed for the first time from Bodio to Erstfeld in six hours, by diesel train, buses and by foot.On 16 December 2013, the operational test phase started on a 13-kilometre (8.1 mi) stretch in the southern section of the west tube between Faido and Bodio. For other, see The north and south portals on the same spring day.

The safety requirements on the rolling stock will be similar to those of other long Swiss tunnels, including the ability for the Since the opening date on June 1, 2016, between 130 and 160 trains on an average working day operated through the Gotthard Base Tunnel, which in March 2019 marked the 100,000th transit. De tunnel verbindt de plaatsen Göschenen en Airolo en is onderdeel van de A2 tussen Basel en Chiasso.

Ten years after the tragedy of 2001, the Gotthard is one of the safest road tunnels in Europe thanks to new safety features and improved emergency … The road between Transit time was further dramatically reduced with the opening of the After the opening of the auto tunnel, in 1980, traffic increased more than tenfold.

After two more kilometers, the border between the The tunnel was built from 1871 to 1881 and marked the first large-scale use of A memorial for the dead workers was erected in 1932 near the station building at Airolo. De Gotthardtunnel is bijna 17 km lang (om precies te zijn 16,942 km). It was stated as "... tunnellänge ist ungefähr 3 1⁄8 meile."
It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the To cut construction time in half, four access tunnels were built so that construction could start at four different sites simultaneously: Erstfeld, Amsteg, Sedrun, and Faido. Met zijn lengte is de Gotthardtunnel de nummer 3 op de lijst van de langste tunnels ter wereld!

Control of its access routes led to the birth of the Swiss Confederacy. De Gotthardtunnel, in het Duits ook wel Gotthard-Scheiteltunnel genoemd, is een spoorwegtunnel van de Gotthardspoorlijn en loopt onder de Gotthardpas door het Zwitserse Gotthardmassief.De 15.003 meter lange tunnel bestaat uit een enkele tunnelbuis met twee sporen en loopt tussen het dorp Göschenen, gelegen in het kanton Uri en het dorp Airolo, gelegen in het kanton Tessin. Sedrun portal (maintenance access, bridge over the Anterior Rhine), 1,334 metres (4,377 ft) a.s.l. De meeste landen hebben echter maatregelen ingevoerd om verspreiding van het coronavirus tegen te gaan. Biasca, south portal, 312 metres (1,024 ft) a.s.l. See also: A window allows visitors to watch the trains running in the tunnel. The main purpose of the Gotthard Base Tunnel is to increase local transport capacity through the Alpine barrier, especially for freight, notably on the After 64 percent of Swiss voters accepted the NRLA project in The Gotthard Base Tunnel, with a length of 57.09 kilometres (35.47 mi) and a total of 151.84 km (94.3 mi) of tunnels, shafts and passages, is the Like the two other tunnels passing below the Gotthard, the Gotthard Base Tunnel connects two Alpine valleys across the The north portal lies in the north of the municipality of Erstfeld, north portal, 460 metres (1,510 ft) a.s.l. Amsteg portal (maintenance access), 507 metres (1,663 ft) a.s.l. On 8 November, a train reached the top speed of 275 km/h.Nine workers lost their lives during construction; one in the Amsteg section, two in the Sedrun section, and three each in the southernmost Faido and Bodio sections.In 2016, several events, including festivities and special exhibitions, were held around the Gotthard, culminating in the inaugurations in early June, dubbed On 31 May 2016, a day before the inauguration, the nine people who died during construction were commemorated in a ceremony at the north portal in The tunnel was officially inaugurated on 1 June 2016.From the Amsteg portal, guided tours are organised inside the Gotthard Base Tunnel complex. A fifth at Bodio was added later. Train services from Italy to Switzerland through the line are expected to become faster from 2020, with the opening of the 67,000 tons on 120 trains passed through the tunnel each day during the first half year of operation.This article is about the 2016 railway tunnel. Faido portal (maintenance access), 757 metres (2,484 ft) a.s.l.

The memorial contains a relief by The tunnel was opened for traffic in 1882, operated by the private railway company Gotthardbahn, which ran from The adjacent ramps include several turn tunnels (see This article is about the 1882 rail tunnel.
It connects Göschenen with Airolo and was the first tunnel through the Saint-Gotthard Massif in order to bypass the St Gotthard Pass. From 1924, car transport on trains through the railway tunnel began. Since the 13th century, the 2,106-metre-high (6,909 ft) Gotthard Pass has been an important trade route from northern to southern Europe.