The
World's longest Railway tunnels| Tunnel | Length | Date of opening |
Line, comment |
| Mount MacDonald | 14 723 m | 12.1988 | Under Roger's Pass, Glacier National Park, CP |
| Table | 9 013 m | 11.1983 | On the Tumbler Ridge Branch of the former BC Rail south of Anzac, CN. Closed in 2003. |
| Connaught | 8 082 m | 13.12.1916 | Rogers Pass, Glacier, CP. Single track since 1959 |
| Wolverine | 5 955 m | 11.1983 | On the Tumbler Ridge Branch of the former BC Rail south of Anzac, CN. Closed in 2003. |
| Mount Royal | 4 973 m | 21.10.1918 | Montreal, CN |
| Thornton | 3 424 m | CN | |
| Detroit River, Windsor | 2 557 m | 10.1910 | CP. The World's 1st immersed tube (Canada - USA). Length of immersed tube segments: 813 m. |
| New St. Clair | 1 868 m | 05.05.1995 | (Sarnia, Ontario, Canada - Port Huron, Michigan, USA) |
| St. Clair River | 1 836 m | 24.10.1891 | The 1st subaqueous tunnel in America (Canada - USA) |
| Mount Shaughnessy | 1 771 m | 12.1988 | Glacier National Park, CP |
| Wolfe's Cove | 1 609 m | CP | |
| Hoseshoe Bay | 1 372 m | CN | |
| Seton | 1 201 m | CN | |
| Townline | 1 000 m | 15.07.1972 | 3 tracks + 2 lanes for cars, Thorold, ON |
| Upper Spiral | 992 m | 04.05.1909 | Kicking Horse Pass, Yoho National Park, CP |
| Bulldog | 912 m | 14.02.1900 | C&W, at Farrow Hill west of Castlegar, CP |
| Lower Spiral | 891 m | 05.05.1909 | Kicking Horse Pass, Yoho National Park, CP |
| Battle Bluff | 863 m | 1915 | CN |
| Arnaud | 670 m | QNS&L | |
| Yale | 641 m | 1915 | CN |
| Bulkley Canyon | m | 1913 | CN |
| Martel | 640 m | 1977 | Aschcroft, CN |
| Bruce | 652 m | 1975 | Hinton, Alta, W |
| Ellwood | 579 m | CP | |
| Brockville and Ottawa | 527 m | 1860 | The oldest tunnel in Canada, ON |
| Red Pass | 509 m | CN | |
| Jerome | ? | 04.09.1898 | C&W, near Moye city, CN |
C&W: Columbia and Western Railway
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The
World's longest Railway tunnels
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