Gotthard Base Tunnel: World's longest passenger tunnel opens in December

By Keith Austin
Updated September 28 2016 - 6:10pm, first published 4:36pm

It is the world's longest, deepest traffic tunnel and when it opens officially in December, passenger trains will speed through its 57.1 kilometre length at up to 250km/h, 2.3 kilometres under the Swiss Alps.

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