Article: SBB Responds to tunnel tragedy. (World Report).

Article: BLS Invests In The Future.(Brief Article)
International Railway Journal;  December 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... operators. Among the largest of these is Bern Lotschberg Simplon Railway, which is set to expand its activities significantly ... a huge boost in traffic and revenue for Bern Lotschberg Simplon (BLS) Railway. But BLS is not merely resting ...

Article: Switzerland: EC Market. Transport policy
Countries of the World;      700+ words ... ... solution. Urgent construction work on the Gotthard and Lotschberg-Simplon lines totalling some Sfr. 400 to 450 million is to be ... moved through Switzerland on a rolling highway on the Lotschberg-Simplon line from that date. If the construction of the new transalpine ...

Article: SWITZERLAND: GOTTHARD LORRY-RAIL CORRIDOR NOW IN SERVICE
Transport Europe;  January 28, 1994 ;     491 words ... ... provided with couchettes in the sleepers during the journey across Switzerland. Larger lorries will be able to take the Lotschberg-Simplon stretch, where tunnelling work began on January 4, when it is completed. The tracks within the tunnel will first have ...

Article: Alptransit Award.
World Tunnelling;  March 1, 2000 ;     617 words ... ... projects in conjunction with our international partners," The 35 km-long Lotschberg project forms part of the Bern-Lotschberg -- Simplon Alp Transit railway axis. The large diameter tunnels will form a key route for freight between the EU countries. Scheduled ...

Article: Worlds Longest Railway Tunnels
The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2002;      330 words ... ... MacDonald 1989 9.10 Canadian Pacific Canada Gotthard 1882 9.00 Swiss Federal Switzerland Lotschberg 1913 9.00 Bern-Lotschberg-Simplon Switzerland Hokuriku 1962 9.00 Japanese Railway Japan Mont Cenis (Frejus) 1871 8.00 Italian State France-Italy ...

Article: Swiss rail tunnels to cost more.(World Report)
International Railway Journal;  March 1, 2004 ;     395 words ... ... billion ($US 11.9 billion), with SFr 7.7 billion for the Gotthard-Ceneri section and SFr 3.2 billion for the Lotschberg-Simplon tunnel, and the rest for ancillary projects. On top of extra costs of SFr 900 million, it has now become clear that ...

Article: BLS Cargo traffic booms.(News)
International Railway Journal;  May 1, 2006 ;     394 words ... ... intermodal traffic on the transalpine axis which it operates with minority shareholder Railion, Germany. On its main Lotschberg-Simplon route, traffic grew 15% to 1.7 billion tonne-km, while traffic on the Gotthard route, which it has only been operating ...