The Gotthard Base Tunnel has carried 276,000 freight trains and 169,000 passenger trains since opening, strengthening Switzerland’s north–south rail axis.
The 27.3 km Semmering Base Tunnel is one of Austria’s largest railway infrastructure projects and forms part of the Baltic–Adriatic Corridor.
The first element of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel is to be sunk
The new tunnel forms part of the modernisation of the Pyhrn line, a core corridor linking Upper Austria and Styria with Germany, Italy and Adriatic and North Sea ports.
The decision applies to three contracts and follows prolonged disruption of works and safety concerns along the tunnel route.
Germany’s railway heritage network DB Museum reported its highest visitor numbers in a decade in 2025. The museum will open a new railway tunnel exhibition in Nuremberg in July 2026.
HS2 has begun tunnelling towards central London as the first tunnel boring machine started work on the 4.5-mile Euston Tunnel from Old Oak Common. The tunnel is the final deep-bore section on the high-speed route between London and Birmingham.
The newly inaugurated Koralm Railway between Graz and Klagenfurt reported high passenger volumes in its first hours of operation, while an unrelated safety response in the Koralm Tunnel drew significant emergency resources on the same day.
China has used an AI system to determine the construction method for a new high-speed rail tunnel in Hubei — a world-first in rail engineering.
The newly built Koralm Railway has commenced freight operations as of early November, several weeks before its official passenger service launch.
A large-scale emergency exercise in the Koralm Tunnel has marked the final phase of safety preparations before the opening of Austria’s new high-speed link between Graz and Klagenfurt in December.
Excavation of the exploratory tunnel beneath the Brenner Pass has reached the border between Austria and Italy, completing its 56 km length.
Emergency services are rehearsing real-life scenarios in the Koralm Tunnel ahead of the Koralmbahn’s opening in December 2025.
The launching chamber, which measures over 180 metres in length and up to 23 metres in depth, with diaphragm walls extending down to 43.5 metres, will house the tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will drive the country's longest and widest single-bore railway tunnel.
Bulgaria and the Republic of North Macedonia are preparing to finalise an agreement for the construction of a cross-border railway tunnel.
Centralny Port KomunikACYJny has awarded a contract to a consortium led by PORR for the new High-Speed Rail tunnel in Łódź.
The project involves extensive tunneling through the Himalayan mountain system, with 105 km of the route passing underground.
Despite major technical challenges due to the collapse of part of the vault at the north portal in December, work is back on schedule for the reopening in July.
Work on the railway connection to the Outer Port of A Coruña has progressed with the completion of excavation for Tunnel 1, a 3.7-kilometer section forming a key part of the future access route.
Both Eurotunnel and Europorte contributed to the overall revenue performance of their parent company, Getlink, which reported total earnings of €1.614 billion for 2024.