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Vereina Tunnel
Entrance of the Vereina Tunnel in Sagliains
Overview
Line
Albula Railway
Location
Graubünden, Switzerland
Status
Open
System
Rhaetian Railway
Operation
Work begun
1991
Opened
19 November 1999 (1999-11-19)
Owner
Rhaetian Railway
Operator
Rhaetian Railway
Traffic
Train
Character
Passenger and freight
Technical
Length
19,042 m (11.832 mi)
No. of tracks
Single track with Passing loops
Track gauge
1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
Electrified
Overhead catenary, 11 kV AC 16 2/3 Hz
Route map
Legend
Landquart–Davos Platz railway (RhB)
to Landquart
32.4 km
20.1 mi
Klosters Platz
Landquart
Landquart–Davos Platz railway (RhB)
to Davos Platz
Zugwald
35.0 km
21.7 mi
Klosters Selfranga
(car shuttle)
Vereina Tunnel
37.2 km
23.1 mi
Klosters Selfranga Süd
43.6 km
27.1 mi
Vereina Nord
45.7 km
28.4 mi
Vereina Süd
52.1 km
32.4 mi
Sagliains Nord
53.7 km
33.4 mi
Sasslatsch Nord
54.5 km
33.9 mi
Sagliains
Bever–Scuol-Tarasp railway (RhB)
to Bever│to Scuol-Tarasp
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The Vereina Tunnel is a railway tunnel, and the principal part of the Vereina railway line, in the canton of Graubünden in eastern Switzerland. It connects the Landquart–Davos Platz and the Bever–Scuol-Tarasp lines.
First proposed during 1975, construction of the tunnel commenced during 1991 and was officially completed on 19 November 1999, ahead of schedule. In the first year alone, roughly 280,000 vehicles were recorded as having used the tunnel; since then, its usage has risen to around 450,000 vehicles per year. At 19,042 metres (62,474 ft) in length,[1] the Vereina Tunnel is the longest tunnel on the Swiss Rhaetian Railway (RhB) network as well as the world's longest metre-gauge railway tunnel.
^"Key figures". Chur, Switzerland: RhB. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
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