The NRLA (The Swiss New Rail Link through the Alps) represents a revolutionary railway connection comprising three base tunnels carved through the Alps in Switzerland. Whilst two tunnels have reached ...

GENEVA (AP) — Just like Hannibal in ancient times, Swiss engineers have conquered the Alps. More than 2,200 years after the commander from the ancient North African civilization of Carthage led his ...

SEDRUN, Switzerland - Swiss engineers broke through a final 6 feet of rock deep in the Alpine mountains on Friday, linking the world's longest rail tunnel. The 35-mile Gotthard Base Tunnel in southern ...

Switzerland's mountains conceal a vast underground network spanning over 2,000 kilometers of tunnels, rail lines, roads, ...

On Thursday 23 October, 2014, Vigier Rail AG produced the last of 380,000 low vibration track (LVT) supports for the Gotthard Base Tunnel. The commonly known ‘golden sleeper’ was indeed golden. On the ...