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Interactive graphic on the 57-kilometre (35.4-mile) Gotthard base tunnel, the world's longest, beneath the Swiss Alps, the lynchpin of a new rail network [...]

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GENEVA — A giant drilling machine will complete the world's longest tunnel beneath the Swiss Alps on Friday, paving the way for continuous high-speed rail [...]

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the Swiss set out to build a high-speed rail link between Zurich and Milan. At 35 miles, te Gotthard Base Tunnel would be the world's longest tunnel. [...]

15 Oct 2010 The 35.4-mile Gotthard Base Tunnel project in central Switzerland -- 60 years in the making -- will enable the creation of a high-speed [...]

15 Oct 2010 Swiss engineers smashed through the last stretch of rock on Friday to create the world's longest tunnel, sparking a national celebration [...]

Workers hugged, cheered and set off fireworks as the huge drill broke through the last stretch of rock deep in the Swiss Alps. There was delight at the end [...]

The longest such tunnel is Seoul Subway Line 5 of Seoul Metro, 52.4 km (32.6 Already in use; at completion it will be the world's third longest tunnel [...]

The world's longest tunnel will take shape deep beneath the Swiss Alps on Friday when a giant drilling machine clears a path for a key high speed railway through the heart of Europe. "The Gotthard will forever be a spectacular and grandiose monument with which all tunnels will be compared," said Swi [...]

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This isn't the Chilean miners but the men who were responsible for seeing through the drilling of the Gotthard Rail Tunnel. Gotthard Base Tunnel now beats the former longest tunnel that belongs to Japan, the Seikan Tunnel, which is 53.9 [...]

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When it opens for traffic in 2017, the Gotthard Base Tunnel will supplant Japan's 33.5-mile Seikan Tunnel as the world's longest - excluding aqueducts - and allow millions more tons of goods to be transported quickly through the Alps by [...]

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The world's longest tunnel is taking shape beneath the Swiss Alps to give way for the high speed railway through the heart of Europe and eventually lighten the traffic on the Alps in central Switzerland when it opens in 2017. [...]

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Mega-structure is 57 kilometers long, passing 2000 feet below the tops of the Gotthard massif and becomes automatic, the longest railway tunnel in the world. Since 2017, when he will be put into operation, the tunnel will shorten by one [...]

Channel Tunnel. Longest Railroad Tunnels in the World. Compiled from various sources by and USA (Colorado; mining tunnel) (Narrow gauge) (Out of service; [...]

SEDRUN, Switzerland – Workers hugged, cheered and set off fireworks as the huge drill broke through the last stretch of rock deep in the Swiss Alps. There was delight at the end of the tunnel — the world's longest — when it was [...]

SEDRUN, Switzerland — Engineers smashed through that last section of rock Friday to create world's longest tunnel in the Swiss Alps. A gigantic drilling machine [...]

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A giant drilling machine punches through a wall of rock to complete the world's longest tunnel Engineers smashed through that last section of rock Friday to create world's longest tunnel in the Swiss Alps. Read more here: Giant Swiss [...]

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AP - Workers hugged, cheered and set off fireworks as the huge drill broke through the last stretch of rock deep in the Swiss Alps. There was delight at the end of the tunnel — the world's longest — when it was completed Friday. [...]

From the New York Times: “Swiss engineers drilling the world’s longest tunnel broke through the last section of rock on Friday, crowning over a decade of work.” The bullet train is on standby 24/7 in the bowels of the Honda Center with a crew of 20 and a fueling station to be installed in the next f [...]

AP - Swiss officials declared a day of joy Friday as residents of the Alpine nation eagerly awaited the breakthrough moment for the world's longest tunnel — a project 60 years in the making. Read the original story here. [...]

AP - Workers hugged, cheered and set off fireworks as the huge drill broke through the last stretch of rock deep in the Swiss Alps. There was delight at the end of the tunnel — the world's longest — when it was completed Friday. [...]

I don’t blog much about politics, at least not directly. But this is an issue that is not about left vs. right or rich vs. poor or west vs. east but rather backward vs. forward. Every day you read about other nations planning for the future. Today’s news has Switzerland completing the world’s longes [...]

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The world's longest tunnel will take shape deep beneath the Swiss Alps on Friday when a giant drilling machine clears a path for a key high speed railway through the heart of Europe."The Gotthard will forever be a spectacular and [...]

The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) is a £5.9bn[1] railway tunnel under construction in Switzerland. tunnels, shafts and passages, it will be the world's longest tunnel [...]