Geneva, Jun 1 (EFE).Geneva, Jun 1 (EFE). — The world’s longest and deepest railway tunnel, crossing under Switzerland’s St. Gotthard Massif, opened on Wednesday. Swiss Confederation President Johann ...

SEDRUN, Switzerland--I'm a kilometer inside one of the Alps and nearly 800 meters below the surface, and it's pitch black. And I'm falling at 14 meters a second. But this isn't a story of fire and ...

Two rescue team members stand inside the Gotthard Tunnel on Oct. 26, 2001. Parts of the tunnel ceiling had to be stabilized after a head-on truck collision caused a fire in which 11 people died. * ...

There is little fanfare in the Swiss region of Ticino for the re-opening of the Gotthard tunnel two months after a traffic accident caused a raging fire which killed 11 people. While some ...

SEDRUN, Switzerland — Swiss engineers broke through a final 6 feet (180 centimeters) of rock deep in the Alpine mountains on Friday, linking the world’s longest rail tunnel. The 35 mile (57 kilometer) ...

The railway is 1.4 miles under the Swiss Alps. — -- It has taken 17 years to construct at a cost of $12 billion. But, finally, the world's longest and deepest rail tunnel, running under the Swiss ...

Since Caesar’s legions and Hannibal’s elephants crossed the Alps on footpaths, man has been waging a slow battle to conquer Europe’s rock curtain. In 1800 Napoleon widened the Alpine trails and made ...

SEDRUN, Switzerland--I'm a kilometer inside one of the Alps and nearly 800 meters below the surface, and it's pitch black. And I'm falling at 14 meters a second. But this isn't a story of fire and ...