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The Alptransit portal presents a selection of archival materials on the NRLA.
Audiovisual and text sources tell the story of Switzerland's
biggest transport project in recent decades.

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1882
  • Phase 1
    1882 - 1960

    Growth in traffic

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  • Phase 2
    1961 - 1983

    Idea and planning

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  • Phase 3
    1983 - 1992

    Planning and referendum

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  • Phase 4
    1992 - 2020

    Planning and realisation

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  • Society
    1805

    The first paved road through the mountains

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  • Society
    1830

    Journey times become shorter and shorter

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  • Construction
    1846

    An iron road made of steel

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  • Politics
    1853

    The long-standing committee

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  • Society
    1867

    Ticino sets the pace

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  • Construction
    1882

    Keeping danger in check

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  • Construction
    21 May 1882

    Inauguration of the Gotthard Tunnel

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  • Society
    1897

    The Gotthard railway in literature

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  • Construction
    18 May 1906

    The second tunnel

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  • Politics
    30 April 1909

    Nationalisation of the Gotthard Railway Company

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  • Construction
    14 July 1913

    Link through the Lötschberg

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  • Society
    1914

    The battle with nature

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  • Construction
    1915

    The first base tunnel

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  • Construction
    1923

    Water replaces coal

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  • Planning
    1947

    The Europe-Africa Express

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  • Society
    1957

    Rail tourism

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  • Politics
    1960

    Visionaries

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  • Planning
    30 January 1962

    The Gotthard Base Tunnel

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  • Planning
    1963

    Road vs rail

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  • Politics
    24 June 1965

    Car vs rail

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  • Society
    1967

    Combined goods transport

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  • Planning
    19 June 1970

    The tunnel plan

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  • Planning
    1970

    The abortive project begins

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  • Planning
    1971

    Traffic forecasts

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  • Politics
    5 June 1971

    Environmental policy turnaround

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  • Society
    24 February 1977

    The overall transport strategy

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  • Planning
    19 December 1979

    Gotthard or Splügen?

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  • Politics
    1981

    Coordination of rail transport

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  • Society
    1984

    The Gotthard myth

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  • Planning
    1985

    A dissertation revives a railway

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  • Construction
    1986

    Rail 2000

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  • Politics
    1988

    Making it happen

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  • Planning
    11 July 1988

    Five options

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  • Planning
    1988

    «Rail with road»

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  • Planning
    1988

    Order, build, operate

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  • Politics
    1 March 1989

    Cross-border solutions

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  • Politics
    28 November 1989

    No link for Eastern Switzerland

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  • Society
    1990

    The Federal Council reaches out to the people

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  • Planning
    1990

    Window of opportunity

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  • Planning
    1990

    The problem with slots

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  • Politics
    3 October 1991

    Parliament backs the NRLA

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  • Politics
    1 May 1992

    Agreement with Europe

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  • Society
    1992

    Approval from western Switzerland

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  • Politics
    26 September 1992

    Yes to the NRLA

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  • Politics
    5 December 1992

    No to the EEA

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  • Construction
    1992

    Tunnel vision

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  • Society
    1 February 1993

    The NRLA and Europe

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  • Society
    20 April 1993

    Pressure from the environmental movement

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  • Construction
    3 October 1993

    Work begins

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  • Society
    12 December 1993

    Spatial planning

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  • Politics
    19 February 1994

    Yes to the Alps Initiative

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  • Politics
    19 February 1995

    Green light for the network option

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  • Politics
    28 May 1995

    Transport policy as financial policy

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  • Society
    12 September 1995

    Links to other countries

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  • Politics
    1995

    Rotterdam–Genoa

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  • Politics
    17 April 1996

    Uri’s concerns

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  • Politics
    28 November 1998

    Yes to public transport funding

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  • Politics
    17 December 1998

    Supervision

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  • Planning
    31 December 1998

    The SBB becomes a limited company

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  • Politics
    13 June 1999

    Adjustments go unnoticed

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  • Construction
    4 July 1999

    Construction begins

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  • Society
    7 October 1999

    The big shift

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  • Politics
    20 May 2000

    The end of the 28-tonne limit

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  • Construction
    26 November 2000

    Geology and surveying

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  • Society
    24 October 2001

    A fire brings big changes

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  • Politics
    16 December 2003

    Yes to the Ceneri Base Tunnel

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  • Construction
    15 April 2004

    The costs

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  • Construction
    2005

    Control in the tunnel

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  • Construction
    1 June 2006

    Construction of the Ceneri tunnel

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  • Construction
    5 September 2006

    Breakthrough in the Gotthard

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  • Society
    2007

    Historians and the NRLA

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  • Construction
    8 December 2007

    The Lötschberg enters operation

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  • Construction
    14 October 2008

    Traversing the Piora Basin

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  • Politics
    19 March 2009

    The 5.4-billion stage

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  • Planning
    2010

    From drawing to 3D model

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  • Society
    2010

    Using the tunnels to get away

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  • Planning
    15 May 2012

    No to the Porta Alpina

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  • Society
    22 August 2013

    A million visitors

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  • Construction
    31 May 2014

    The four-metre corridor

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  • Construction
    30 October 2014

    Rock meets concrete

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  • Construction
    30 September 2015

    Tests on the Gotthard

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  • Society
    2015

    Tunnels of the world

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  • Society
    31 May 2016

    High-profile guests at the opening ceremony

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  • Society
    10 December 2016

    Costs and benefits

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  • Society
    2016

    43,152 trains

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  • Society
    2016

    The train feels the strain

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  • Construction
    31 December 2016

    Mind the doors

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  • Politics
    11 August 2017

    A vulnerable transport system

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  • Planning
    2017

    A language in themselves

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  • Politics
    2019

    Escher forever?

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  • Construction
    2019

    Ceneri, the third base tunnel

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  • Society
    2021

    Whither the mountain routes?

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