MILAN — A hydraulic rock drill broke open a tunnel connecting Austria to Italy 1,400 meters (nearly 4,600 feet) beneath the Alps on Thursday, marking a major milestone in a series of ambitious ...

Switzerland's mountains conceal a vast underground network spanning over 2,000 kilometers of tunnels, rail lines, roads, ...

Finishing the project's first exploratory tunnel is a major milestone for the Brenner Base Tunnel, which will eventually provide the a dedicated rail link through the Alps between Italy and Austria.

Europe has just carved its way into history. According to a Reuters report, engineers have completed the breakthrough of the Brenner Base Tunnel, the world’s longest underground rail tunnel. This mega ...

The New Railway Link through the Alps (AlpTransit), is a Swiss federal project focused on building faster North-South rail links across the Swiss Alps by constructing base tunnels several hundred ...