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☆ World’s longest tunnel closes to train passengers after derailment
  + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Barry Neild | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
But the reduced capacity will mean re-routing passenger trains via a scenic railway that takes up to two hours longer until early 2024. It also completes a freight rail corridor between Rotterdam in the Netherlands and the Mediterranean Italian port of Genoa. Swiss rail investigators are currently trying to establish the cause of the accident in which no one was injured. “The Gotthard Base Tunnel is one of the safest in the world,” SBB CEO Vincent Ducrot told reporters on Wednesday. The teams deployed are doing everything they can to ensure that safe rail traffic through the Gotthard Base tunnel is possible again as quickly as possible.”
Persons: “, Vincent Ducrot Organizations: CNN, Rail, SBB, ” SBB Locations: Swiss, “, Europe, Erstfeld, Zurich, Milan, Italy, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Genoa, Gotthard
☆ World’s longest, deepest rail tunnel to close for months after freight derailment in the Swiss Alps
  + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Sam Meredith | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
An Italian train makes its way at the north entrance of the new Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's longest train tunnel, on the eve of its opening ceremony on May 31, 2016 in Erstfeld. Swiss rail authorities said repairs to the Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's deepest traffic tunnel and longest of its kind, will take several months after the extent of the damage from a recent freight service derailment was found to be "significantly greater" than initially estimated. The operator currently assumes that both tunnel tubes will be available again for all rail traffic "to a limited extent" at the beginning of next year, while the undamaged east tunnel tube should be able to operate from Aug. 23 for freight traffic. It means that rail passengers traveling between north and southernmost Switzerland will be forced to take a more scenic route over the coming months. The Gotthard Base Tunnel is a high-speed railway route through the Swiss Alps.
Organizations: SBB Locations: Italian, Erstfeld ., Gotthard, Switzerland, Swiss
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