the first alpine road tunnel
1st St.Gotthard road,
under the Kirchberg!
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"Buca di Uri" (Unerloch), the first alpine road tunnel 1st St.Gotthard road, under the Kirchberg! |
Some Old Tunnels |
| Tunnel | Tunnel type, notes | Length | Year of construction |
| Under Eufrate river | Pedestrian tunnel | 2500 B.C. | |
 Gihon - Siloa, Israel |
Water supply, Jerusalem. 4 - 5 m2 | 535 m | 800 - 700 B.C. |
| Galleria del Fucino, Italy | Water supply, 4 m x 2.5 m | 5 650 m | |
| Grotta Vecchia di Posillipo, Italy | Pedestrian tunnel near Posillipo (Neaples) | 690 m | 36 B.C. |
| Galleria del Furlo, Italy | Road tunnel, At Furlo Pass, on Via Flaminia, .
5.47 m x 5.95 m |
38 m | 76 D.C. |
| Menilmontant, France | Drain in Paris (Diameter 2.2 m) | 468 m | - 1370 |
| Buco di Viso, France - Italy | 2 m high, 2.5 m wide tunnel, 2882 m above sea level | 75 m | 1476 - 1484 |
| Pertuso di Touilles (Italy, over Susa) | 1.8 m high water tunnel near Chiomonte, built by only one person, Colombano Romean | 450 m | 1526 - 1533 |
| Tunnel of Malpas, France |
Canal du Midi, Navigation canal | 173 m | 1680 - 1681 |
| 1st. Gotthard | Buca d'Uri, Road tunnel | 64 m | 1707 - 1708 |
| The Great Ring Sewer | Sanitation, Paris (2 m) | 6 128 m | - 1740 |
| Neutor, Austria | M�nchsberg in Salzburg (road, still in use) | 131 m | 1765 - 1767 |
| Harecastle, UK | Grand Trunk, Canal tunnel (3 m) | 2 675 m | 1766 - 1777 |
| San Nicolao, near Susa, Italy | The first tunnel against avalanches to protect railway line Fell | 177 m | 1775 - 1779 |
| Sapperton, UK |
Tunnel on Thames&Severn Canal | 3 490 m | 1784 - 1789 |
| Lapal, UK | Canal tunnel (1.9 m) | 3 570 m | - 1798 |
| Tronquoy, France | Canal de St. Quentin (7.9 m), "Le Petit Souterrain" | 1 097 m | 1795 - 1803 |
| Bony | Canal de St. Quentin (8 m), "Le Grand Souterrain" |
5 677 m | 1802 - 1810 |
| Standedge, UK |
Huddersfield narrow Canal | 4 840 m | 1794 - 1811 |
| St-Christophe, France | Road tunnel (8 m) | 294 m | - 1813 |
| Orwigsburg, USA | Water tunnel, Pennsylvania | 137 m | - 1821 |
| Wapping, UK | Railway tunnel, Liverpool - Manchester | 2 030 m | - 1826 |
| Union Canal, USA | Canal tunnel | 222 m | 1825 - 1827 |
| Edge Hill, UK | Railway tunnel, Liverpool - Manchester | 1 006 m | 1826 - 1830 |
| Pouilly-en-Auxois, France | Canal de Bourgogne | 3 333 m | 1825 - 1832 |
| Terre Noire, France | Railway tunnel | 1 298 m | 1827 - 1832 |
| Glenfield, UK | Railway tunnel, Leicester - Swannington | 1 610 m | 1828 - 1832 |
| Pennsylvania, USA | Railway tunnel, Alleghenny mountains | m | - 1833 |
| Kilsby, UK | Railway tunnel, London - Birmingham | 2 190 m | 1834 - 1838 |
| Box tunnel, UK |
World's longest railway tunnel (Bristol - Bath) | 2 939 m | 1836 - 1841 |
| Thames tunnel, UK | 1st River Crossing, London | 350 m | 1826 - 1843 |
| Atlantic Avenue, USA | Railway tunnel, Brooklyn | 900 m | - 1844 |
| Le Lioran, France | Road tunnel (6.5 m) | 1 414 m | - 1847 |
| Woodhead, UK |
Sheffield - Manchester
line 2nd tube New Woodhead tunnel |
4 848 m 4 840 m 4 888 m |
1836 - 1845 - 1852 - 1953 |
| Standedge, UK | Railway tunnel, London - Northwestern | 4 880 m | 1846 - 1849 |
| Paw Paw tunnel, USA |
Canal (Height 7.3 m) | 950 m | 1836 - 1850 |
| Semmering, Austria | Railway Wienna - Trieste | 1 434 m | 1848 - 1854 |
| Hauenstein, Switzerland | Railway Basel - Liestal | 2 496 m | 1854 - 1858 |
| Brockville and Ottawa | 1st tunnel in Canada, Brockville, Ontario | 527 m | 1854 - 1860 |
| Bergen, USA | Double track railway tunnel | 1856 - 1861 | |
| Lyttelton, New Zealand |
New Zealand's first railway tunnel | 2 400 m | 1860 - 1867 |
| Washington Street, USA | River crossing Chicago | 510 m | - 1869 |
| Tower Subway, UK | Pedestrian tunnel ( 2 m) Thames | 410 m | 1868 - 1870 |
| Broadway, USA | Subway tunnel, New York | 1869 - 1870 | |
| Mont Cenis, France - ItaIy (Fr�jus) |
1st transalpine rail tunnel (Since 1881: 13 690 m) | 12 200 m | 1857 - 1871 |
| Hoosac, USA | Railway tunnel (First commersial use of nitroglycerine) | 7 750 m | 1851 - 1875 |
| Bewdley, England | Great Western Railway | 1 800 m | 1876 - 1877 |
| Marseille Canal, France | Water supply | 18 000 m | 1840 - 1880 |
| Kurikoyama, Japan | Road tunnel | 868 m | - 1880 |
| St. Gotthard, Switzerland |
Railway tunnel | 15 003 m | 1872 - 1882 |
| Col de Tende, France - Italy | Old railway tunnel (Today: N 204 - SS20) | 3 186 m | - 1882 |
| Arlberg, Austria |
Railway tunnel | 10 249 m | 1880 - 1884 |
| Hudson River, USA |
Subaqueous railway tunnel | 1 730 m | 1874 - 1885 |
| Severn, England - Wales |
Subaqueous railway tunnel (double line) | 7 008 m | 1872 - 1886 |
| River Mersey, England |
Subaqueous railway tunnel, Liverpool | -1888 | |
| Shiquiling, China | First tunnel in China | 261 m | 1887 - 1890 |
| St. Clair River, Canada - USA |
1st subaqueous railroad tunnel in America | 1 835 m | 1884 - 1891 |
| Glenbrook, Australia | Railway, Blue Mountains | 634 m | 1891 - 1892 |
| East River, USA |
36-inch diameter gas main and a railway track | 790 m | 1892 - 1894 |
| Swan View, Australia | Railway, abandoned 1966 | 340 m | 1894 - 1895 |
| Chedde, France | 1st hydro-electric gallery (3 m) | 1 800 m | - 1896 |
| First Blackwall, UK |
River crossing, Thames London (road) | 1 890 m | 1892 - 1897 |
| Eidfjordvatnet, Norway | First Road tunnel in Norway (3.3 m) | 25 m | |
| K�rdal, Norway | First Road tunnel in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway | 90 m | - 1898 |
| Simplon Tunnel |
The World's longest tunnel (until 1982) | 19 803 m | 1898 - 1906 |
| Line No 1, France | Metro Paris (7.5 m) | 10 300 m | 1898 - 1900 |
| Detroit river, Windsor, Canada - USA | The World's first immersed tunnel (railway) | - 1910 | |
| Der Alte Elbtunnel, D |
River crossing Hamburg | 2 x 449 m | 1907 - 1911 |
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