General Information
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Railroad (railway) tunnel |
|---|---|
| Structure: |
Tunnel |
Location
| Location: |
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Thalwil, Zurich, Switzerland |
|---|---|
| Coordinates: | 47° 18' 1.04" N 8° 33' 34.50" E |
| Coordinates: | 47° 22' 32.88" N 8° 31' 6.84" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| length | ca. 11 km |
Materials
| tunnel structure |
reinforced concrete
|
|---|
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Zimmerberg Base Tunnel is a railway tunnel under the Zimmerberg mountains in Switzerland. It is divided into two sections, of which section I is operational and section II only proposed. Zimmerberg I is about 10 km long and links Zurich with Thalwil and bypasses a section of the Lake Zürich left-bank railway line.
The proposed 21 billion Swiss francs variant of the Rail 2030 project includes the Zimmerberg Base Tunnel II.
Part II will bring the length to about 20 km and will link Zurich with Zug. The intermediate exit to Thalwil would still be used by passenger and freight trains going to Chur as well as by international trains to Austria.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Zimmerberg Base Tunnel" and modified on July 22, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2000): Bahn 2000 Zürich-Thalwil – Ein anspruchsvoller Tunnel im Lockergestein und Fels. In: Felsbau, v. 18, n. 3 ( 2000), pp. 40.
- (1999): Besonderheiten der Planung und Abwicklung der Eisenbahntunnel am Gotthard. In: Felsbau, v. 17, n. 5 ( 1999), pp. 321-328.
- (2000): How the Zimmerberg-Base Tunnel is Being Built in the City of Zurich. Presented at: IABSE Congress: Structural Engineering for Meeting Urban Transportation Challenges, Lucerne, Switzerland, 18-21 September 2000, pp. 782-789.
- (2000): Zimmerberg Basistunnel. In: Felsbau, v. 18, n. 6 ( 2000), pp. 54.
- (2001): Der Zimmerberg-Basistunnel – TBM-Vortrieb an der Grenze des technisch Machbaren. In: Felsbau, v. 19, n. 5 ( 2001), pp. 148.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20000903 - Published on:
06/09/2000 - Last updated on:
22/07/2014
