Dachzeilentext Englisch

Gotthard Base Tunnel: Construction of the Access Route in the Urner Reusstal Valley

Untertiteltext Englisch

A high-speed tunnel such as the Gotthard Base Tunnel can only be operated providing there is a correspondingly efficient access route. The northern access to the Base Tunnel is located in the Reusstal Valley in the Canton of Uri. Constructing in open terrain involves different challenges than posed by tunnelling. The required solutions are equally sophisticated.

Major Structure on a constricted Space

The Gotthard Base Tunnel’s northern access has been under construction in the Reusstal since 2005 – a valley which already contains important transit routes: the Gotthard motorway A2 as well as the existing SBB Gotthard line. Pressure on the constricted space in the valley is correspondingly high. The 5 km long connecting route crosses residential areas, roads, waters and agricultural districts. The new rail embankment, over which trains will travel at speeds of 200 to 250 km/h in future, is 2 to 3 m high and up to 50 m wide. Apart from the rail track,...

Related articles:

Issue 04/2011

Rail Technology for the Gotthard Base Tunnel

The first Swiss north-south high-speed route between Zurich and Milan including the Gotthard and Monte Ceneri tunnels is some 90 km long. Since 2009 work on installing the rail technology in the...

more
Issue 04/2010 Dachzeilentext Englisch

Rail Technology in the Gotthard Base Tunnel

Untertiteltext Englisch

The rail technology embraces all components and systems, which belong to the “actual rail technical system”: the track, electric installations for supplying power for the rail technology and the...

more
Issue 04/2009 Switzerland

Ceneri Base Tunnel

The ramps of the present-day rail routes at the Ceneri amount to up to 26 %o - the same gradients that are to be found at the Gotthard. The building of the Gotthard Base Tunnel alone would not have...

more
Issue 04/2010

Ceneri Base Tunnel

Significance of the Ceneri Base Tunnel The ramps of the present railway route at the Ceneri possess gradients of up to 26 ‰. If the Ceneri Base Tunnel were not to be built additional locomotives...

more
Issue 07/2014

Gotthard Base Tunnel: Control Technology

The Gotthard Base Tunnel consists of two parallel, 57 km long single-track bores, which are linked to each other by means of 40 m long cross-passages at 325 m gaps. Altogether, the tunnel system with...

more