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Gotthard Base Tunnel:World's Longest Railway Mountain Tunnel


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1 Student, B.Tech. (Instrumentation and Control Engineering) with Instrumentation and Control Department, Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, New Delhi – 110 063, India
2 Associate Professor, Department of Instrumentation and Control, Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, New Delhi – 110 063, India

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Switzerland was suffering from serious traffic problem and so it proposed a gigantic project. Over 35 miles long tunnel would cut through the heart of the Swiss Alps. Redirecting the rush and traffic of Europe not over the Alps but under the Alps. To do this, miners had to punch their way through the hardest rock on this planet. For this a TBM was required, each 3 stories high and larger than 4 football fields, working continuously for 6 years. This project was very dangerous and outrageously expensive at a price tag of $10 billion.

Keywords

Longest Railway Mountain Tunnel, Mega Projects, TBM, $10 Billion.

Manuscript Received : October 9, 2020; Revised : November 8, 2020; Accepted : November 12, 2020. Date of Publication : December 5, 2020.

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Aaryan Sharma
Student, B.Tech. (Instrumentation and Control Engineering) with Instrumentation and Control Department, Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, New Delhi – 110 063, India
Arvind Rehalia
Associate Professor, Department of Instrumentation and Control, Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, New Delhi – 110 063, India

Abstract


Switzerland was suffering from serious traffic problem and so it proposed a gigantic project. Over 35 miles long tunnel would cut through the heart of the Swiss Alps. Redirecting the rush and traffic of Europe not over the Alps but under the Alps. To do this, miners had to punch their way through the hardest rock on this planet. For this a TBM was required, each 3 stories high and larger than 4 football fields, working continuously for 6 years. This project was very dangerous and outrageously expensive at a price tag of $10 billion.

Keywords


Longest Railway Mountain Tunnel, Mega Projects, TBM, $10 Billion.

Manuscript Received : October 9, 2020; Revised : November 8, 2020; Accepted : November 12, 2020. Date of Publication : December 5, 2020.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17010/ijce%2F2020%2Fv3i2%2F156367