Lotschberg Base Tunnel

The Lotschberg Base Tunnel is a 34.57 kilometre railway base tunnel at the BLS AG's Lotschberg line reducing through the Bernese Alps of Switzerland a few 400 m below the present Lotschberg Tunnel. It runs among Frutigen, Berne, and Raron, Valais, and become constructed as one of the centerpieces of the NRLA task. Breakthrough changed into in April 2005 and creation resulted in 2006.

The establishing ceremony turned into in June 2007 full scale operation started in December 2007, and the hyperlink is presently saturated because a unmarried-track section significantly reduces its potential.Built to ease lorry visitors on Swiss roads, the LBT lets in an expanded variety of lorries and trailers to be loaded onto trains in Germany, bypass through Switzerland on rail and be unloaded in Italy.

It additionally cuts down journey time for German vacationers going to Swiss ski motels and puts the Valais into commuting distance to Bern through reducing tour time by way of 50 according to cent. The total fee turned into SFr 4.3 billion. This and the Gotthard Base Tunnel are the 2 centerpieces of the Swiss NRLA assignment.