No photos yetThere is no freely licensed photo of this place yet.
About Simplon Tunnel
Simplon Tunnel is a sight (Historic sites) in Naters. Up-to-date information is available on its own website. Just around the corner: Hof Schmeli (hotel, 329 m) and Restaurant Venezia (restaurant, 359 m).
Compiled from structured data
At a glance
- Category
- Sight › Historic sites
- Rating
- no reviews yet · write a review
- Address
- —
Naters, Switzerland - Phone
- —
- Website
- fi.wikipedia.org
- —
- Coordinates
- 46.32361° N · 8.00306° E
- Data quality
- confidence 0.82
- Identifier
- ID 7a90ade6-147…
Location & surroundings
Toggle layersRatings & comments
none yetNear Simplon Tunnel
closest 5 per category · 2 kmRestaurants
Hotels
Cocktail bars
None within 2 km.
96 places within 2 km loaded.
You need a free account to leave reviews and photos – that keeps comments genuine and lets you edit them later.
Lending its name to one of the more iconic routes of the fabled Orient Express, this was the first "base tunnel" avant la lettre in the world and an incredible feat of engineering unsurpassed for several decades, holding the record for the longest tunnel of any kind from its opening in 1906 to the completion of the Seikan Tunnel in 1988. The ventilation problems encountered shortly after its opening led to it becoming one of Switzerland's first electric tunnel (and a ban on steam or diesel trains) leading the way of the eventual electrification of the entire Swiss rail network.
Source: Wikivoyage, „Travel for rail enthusiasts“ · authors per page history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · as of 9/19/2017