Switzerland has completed world’s longest and deepest railway tunnel 8,000 feet beneath the French Alps.
The tunnel will be used to transport passengers from Zurich to Milan. The 35-mile long tunnel made with 2 million truck loads of earth and at a cost of £6.5 billion, will transport passengers within two hours and 50 minutes from Zurich to Milan, reducing almost an hour off the current travel time.
Authorities said that the NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel is set to open to the public in June 2016, however, will select 1,000 people to take the maiden voyage in January 2016.
The work on the project began 20 years ago in 1996 with over 2,000 workers hired to excavate more than two million truck loads of earth.
Further, the tunnel measures 35 miles and exceeds Japan’s 14.5 mile long Seikan Tunnel, connecting two islands.
