List of tunnels in Switzerland

The Gotthard Base Tunnel became the world's longest railway tunnel upon opening in 2016.

This list of tunnels in Switzerland includes all notable road, rail, waterway, or other tunnels in Switzerland.

Name | Length
(km) | Type | Route | Notes

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Adler Tunnel | 5.302 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Hauenstein line | Opened 4 December 2000[1][2][3]
Aescher Tunnel | 2.176 | road | A4 motorway | [4]
Albula Tunnel | 5.865 | rail | Rhaetian Railway Albula line |
Arrissoules Tunnel | 2.987 | road | A1 motorway |
Baregg Tunnel | 1.390 | road | A1 motorway |
Belchen Tunnel | 3.180 | road | A2 motorway |
Bözberg Rail Tunnel | 2.526 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Bözberg railway line |
Bözberg Road Tunnel | 3.705 | road | A3 motorway |
Bubenholz Tunnel | 0.550 | road | A51 motorway |
Bure Tunnel | 3.059 | road | A16 motorway | [5]
Cassanawald Tunnel | 1.230 | road | A13 motorway |
Ceneri Base Tunnel | 15.4 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard line | Opened on 4 September 2020
Crapteig Tunnel | 2.171 | road | A13 motorway | [6]
Cholfirst Tunnel | 1.260 | road | A4 motorway |
Felskinn–Mittelallalin Tunnel | 1.749 | rail | Metro Alpin | Funicular railway, entirely in tunnel
Furka Base Tunnel | 15.407 | rail | Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn Furka–Oberalp line | With car transport
Furka Summit Tunnel | 1.858 | rail | Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway | Superseded by the Furka Base Tunnel, now used by a heritage railway
Giswil Tunnel | 2.066 | road | A8 motorway |
Girsberg Tunnel | 1.770 | road | A7 motorway |
Glion Tunnel | 1.350 | road | A9 motorway |
Gotthard Base Tunnel | 57.104 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard line | Opened on 1 June 2016
Gotthard Rail Tunnel | 15.003 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard line |
Gotthard Road Tunnel | 16.942 | road | A2 motorway |
Grauholz Tunnel | 6.295 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Olten–Lausanne line | [7][8]
Great St Bernard Tunnel | 5.798 | road |  |
Grenchenberg Tunnel | 8.578 | rail | BLS AG Grenchenberg line | [9][10]
Gubrist Tunnel | 3.273 | road | A1 motorway |
Hauenstein Base Tunnel | 8.134 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Hauenstein line |
Hauenstein Summit Tunnel | 2.495 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Hauenstein line |
Heitersberg Tunnel | 4.929 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Heitersberg line |
Hirschengraben Tunnel | 2.148 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Lake Zürich right-bank line |
Jungfrau Tunnel | 7.122 | rail | Jungfrau Railway | Rack railway, mostly in tunnel
Käferberg Tunnel | 2.119 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Zürich–Winterthur line |
Kerenzerberg Rail Tunnel | 3.955 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Ziegelbrücke–Sargans line |
Kerenzerberg Road Tunnel | 5.760 | road | A3 motorway |
Large Hadron Collider | 27 | sui generis | CERN near Geneva | Contains the world's largest and most powerful particle collider.
It is a circular loop under the territories of both Switzerland and France.
Letten Tunnel | 2.093 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Lake Zürich right-bank line | Superseded by Hirschengraben Tunnel, now disused
Lötschberg Base Tunnel | 34.57 | rail | BLS AG Lötschberg line | Opened on 14 June 2007
Lötschberg Tunnel | 14.612 | rail | BLS AG Lötschberg line |
Lopper I Rail Tunnel | 1.186 | rail | Zentralbahn Brünig line |
Lopper II Rail Tunnel | 1.743 | rail | Zentralbahn Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line |
Lopper Road Tunnel | 1.590 | road | A8 motorway |
Mappo–Morettina Tunnel | 5.518 | road | A13 motorway | [11]
Maroggia Tunnel | 0.569 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard line |
Milchbuck Tunnel | 1.910 | road | A1L motorway |
Mont d'Or Tunnel | 6.099 | rail | Réseau Ferré de France Dijon–Vallorbe-Lausanne SBB TGV line | between Switzerland and France[12][13]
Monte Ceneri Rail Tunnel | 1.692 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard line | Twin single-track tunnels:
Monte Ceneri I is 1675m in length; Monte Ceneri II is 1692m in length.
Monte Ceneri Road Tunnel | 1.412 | road | A2 motorway |
Munt la Schera Tunnel | 3.394 | road |  |
Ricken Tunnel | 8.603 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Uznach–Wattwil line |
Rosenberg Tunnel | 1.466 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Winterthur–Rorschach line | [14]
Rosenberg Tunnel | 1.450 | road | A1 Motorway | [15]
Sachseln Tunnel | 5.213 | road | A8 Motorway |
San Bernardino Tunnel | 6.596 | road | A13 motorway |
San Nicolao Tunnel | 0.680 | road | A2 motorway |
Schöneich Tunnel | 0.6 | road | A1L Motorway |
Seelisberg Tunnel | 9.292 | road | A2 Motorway |
Sierre Tunnel | 2.460 | road | A9 Motorway |
Simplon Tunnel | 19.824 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Simplon line | Between Switzerland and Italy
Sonnenberg Tunnel | 1.550 | road | A2 Motorway |
Vereina Tunnel | 19.058 | rail | Rhaetian Railway Vereina line | With car transport
Wasserfluh Tunnel | 3.556 | rail | Südostbahn Bodensee–Toggenburg line | [16]
Weinberg Tunnel | 4.8 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Altstetten–Zürich–Oerlikon cross-city line |
Wipkingen Tunnel | 1.2 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Zürich–Winterthur line | Extended from 0.959 km in the 1990s
Zermatt–Sunnegga Tunnel | 1.545 | rail | SunneggaExpress | Funicular railway, entirely in tunnel
Zimmerberg Base Tunnel | 9.4 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard line |
Zimmerberg Tunnel | 1.984  | rail  | Swiss Federal Railways Thalwil–Arth-Goldau line | Single-track, built 1897
Zürichberg Tunnel | 5 | rail | Swiss Federal Railways Zürichberg line |

## See also

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* List of tunnels by location
* List of tunnels in the Alps
* List of tunnels in Austria

## References

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1. ^ Adler Tunnel Opens Today's Railways Europe issue 61 January 2001 page 52
2. ^ "Adler Tunnel". structurae.net. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
3. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 2\. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
4. ^ "Aescher Tunnel". structurae.net. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
5. ^ "Bure Tunnel". structurae.net. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
6. ^ "Crapteig Tunnel". structurae.net. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
7. ^ "Grauholz Tunnel". structurae.net. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
8. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 19\. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
9. ^ "Grenchenberg Tunnel". structurae.net. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
10. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 9\. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
11. ^ "Mappo-Morettina Tunnel". structurae.net. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
12. ^ "Tunnel du Mont d'Or". structurae.net. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
13. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 28\. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
14. ^ "Rosenberg Tunnel (Saint Gallen)". structurae.net. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
15. ^ "Rosenberg Tunnel (Saint Gallen, 1987)". structurae.net. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
16. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. pp. 14–15\. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.14-15&rft.pub=Verlag+Schweers+++Wall+GmbH&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-3-89494-130-7&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:List+of+tunnels+in+Switzerland" class="Z3988">

## External links

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* Swiss Tunnelling Society, Swiss Tunnel Database

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