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class="mw-body-content"><script>function mfTempOpenSection(id){var block=document.getElementById("mf-section-"+id);block.className+=" open-block";block.previousSibling.className+=" open-block";}</script><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><section class="mf-section-0" id="mf-section-0"> The New Railway Link through the Alps (NRLA; <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: Neue Eisenbahn-Alpentransversale, NEAT, <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: nouvelle ligne ferroviaire à travers les Alpes, NLFA, <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>: Nuova ferrovia transalpina, NFTA), is a <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Swiss</a> construction project for faster north–south rail links across the <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Alps" title="Swiss Alps">Swiss Alps</a>. It consists of two axes with several improvements along these rails including three new <a href="/wiki/Base_tunnel" title="Base tunnel">base tunnels</a> several hundred metres below the existing apex tunnels, the 57-kilometre (35 mi) <a href="/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel" title="Gotthard Base Tunnel">Gotthard Base Tunnel</a>, the 35-kilometre (22 mi) <a href="/wiki/L%C3%B6tschberg_Base_Tunnel" title="Lötschberg Base Tunnel">Lötschberg Base Tunnel</a>, and the 15-kilometre (9.3 mi) <a href="/wiki/Ceneri_Base_Tunnel" title="Ceneri Base Tunnel">Ceneri Base Tunnel</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ATPOv-1">[1]</a> <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Federal_Railways" title="Swiss Federal Railways">Swiss Federal Railways</a> subsidiary AlpTransit Gotthard AG and <a href="/wiki/BLS_AG" title="BLS AG">BLS AG</a> subsidiary BLS Alp Transit AG (now BLS Netz AG) were founded for this project and built the tunnels.<a href="#cite_note-ATPC-2">[2]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alptransit_project_overview_engl.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Rail map of Switzerland and surrounding countries" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Alptransit_project_overview_engl.jpg/310px-Alptransit_project_overview_engl.jpg" decoding="async" width="310" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Alptransit_project_overview_engl.jpg/465px-Alptransit_project_overview_engl.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Alptransit_project_overview_engl.jpg/620px-Alptransit_project_overview_engl.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="682"></a><figcaption>The NRLA project is the centrepiece of the <a href="/wiki/Central_Europe" title="Central Europe">Central European</a> rail network.</figcaption></figure> The total projected cost of the project was <a href="/wiki/Swiss_franc" title="Swiss franc">CHF</a> 12.189 billion at its 1998 start; in December 2015, its final cost was projected to be CHF 17.900 billion. The 1998 projected total cost of the Gotthard Base Tunnel was CHF 6.323 billion; in December 2015, its final cost was projected to be CHF 9.560 billion.<a href="#cite_note-NeatKosten-3">[3]</a> It opened on 1 June 2016, and became operational on 11 December of that year. The Ceneri Base Tunnel was opened on 3 September 2020 and became fully operational in December 2020 and is an important feeder for the Gotthard Base Tunnel.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> A decision to fully complete the second tube of the Lötschberg Base Tunnel was made in early-2024, with an estimated cost of CHF 1.7 billion<a href="#cite_note-BLS-2024-5">[5]</a> and construction expected to extend from 2026 to 2033.<a href="#cite_note-TunnelOnline-2020-6">[6]</a> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Political_background">1 Political background</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Gotthard_axis">2 Gotthard axis</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#L%C3%B6tschberg_axis">3 Lötschberg axis</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#See_also">4 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#References">5 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#External_links">6 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Political_background">Political background</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=NRLA&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Political background" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GBT_MFS_Faido_TV-WS.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img alt="See caption" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/GBT_MFS_Faido_TV-WS.jpg/330px-GBT_MFS_Faido_TV-WS.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="218" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 290px;height: 218px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/GBT_MFS_Faido_TV-WS.jpg/330px-GBT_MFS_Faido_TV-WS.jpg" data-alt="See caption" data-width="290" data-height="218" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/GBT_MFS_Faido_TV-WS.jpg/500px-GBT_MFS_Faido_TV-WS.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/GBT_MFS_Faido_TV-WS.jpg/960px-GBT_MFS_Faido_TV-WS.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Three-way junction under construction in the <a href="/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel" title="Gotthard Base Tunnel">Gotthard Base Tunnel</a> in 2006</figcaption></figure> During late-1980s and early-1990s negotiations with the <a href="/wiki/European_Economic_Community" title="European Economic Community">European Economic Community</a> (the predecessor of the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">EU</a>), Switzerland demanded a limitation on transalpine truck traffic. When the EEC refused, Swiss negotiators instead proposed a heavy-vehicle fee (HVF), a kilometre-based tax on freight vehicles, for all lorries above 3.5 <a href="/wiki/Tonne" title="Tonne">tonnes</a><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> and offered to build a high-speed rail link through the Alps for <a href="/wiki/Intermodal_freight_transport" title="Intermodal freight transport">intermodal freight transport</a>. Swiss voters approved the rail link in a 27 September 1992 <a href="/wiki/Mandatory_referendum" title="Mandatory referendum">mandatory referendum</a>.<a href="#cite_note-NRLA-8">[8]</a> The EU accepted the Swiss offer in 2000, but requested that the extant 28-tonne weight limit for <a href="/wiki/Lorries" class="mw-redirect" title="Lorries">lorries</a> be raised to 48 tonnes. The parties eventually compromised on a 40-tonne weight limit. The bilateral Land Transport Agreement with the European Union was signed, agreeing to an increase of the kilometer-based tax (HVF; <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: LSVA, <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: RPLP, <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>: TTPCP) on <a href="/wiki/Heavy_Goods_Vehicle" class="mw-redirect" title="Heavy Goods Vehicle">HGVs</a> from 1.6 ct/tkm to 1.8 ct/tkm when the NRLA was completed. The condition was deemed fulfilled at the completion of the first track of the <a href="/wiki/L%C3%B6tschberg_Base_Tunnel" title="Lötschberg Base Tunnel">Lötschberg Base Tunnel</a> in 2007.<a href="#cite_note-EUA-9">[9]</a> Other relevant Swiss legislation includes the 1994 <a href="/wiki/Alps_initiative" class="mw-redirect" title="Alps initiative">Alps initiative</a>, which prohibits road-building in the Alps and encourages the transport of as many transalpine goods as possible by rail rather than road, and the 1998 Traffic Transfer Act, which sets an ideal maximum number of trucks crossing the Alps by road. Meeting this goal requires a fully functional NRLA rail link.<a href="#cite_note-AI-10">[10]</a> The original plans for the NRLA were to construct only one main base tunnel, but regional disputes prevented a choice between the two options and threatened to jeopardize the entire project. The <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Federal_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss Federal Council">Swiss Federal Council</a> therefore decided in 1995 to build two base tunnels (Gotthard and Lötschberg) simultaneously.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> In 1998, the total projected cost of the NRLA project was CHF 12.189 billion; in December 2015, the final cost was projected to be CHF 17.900 billion. The projected cost of its centerpiece, the Gotthard Base Tunnel, was CHF 6.323 billion in 1998; in December 2015, the tunnel's cost was an estimated CHF 9.560 billion. The 1998 cost of the Lötschberg axis was an estimated CHF 3.214 billion; in December 2015, it was an estimated CHF 4.237 billion.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-NeatKosten-3">[3]</a> Swiss voters approved the NRLA project on 27 September 1992, with 63.6% support.<a href="#cite_note-NRLA-8">[8]</a> Two years later on 20 February 1994, the Swiss populace unexpectedly also accepted with 51.9% support the Alps protecting initiative, a <a href="/wiki/Popular_initiative_(Switzerland)" class="mw-redirect" title="Popular initiative (Switzerland)">federal popular initiative</a> initiated by just a few private citizens. This was despite neither the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Council_(Switzerland)" title="Federal Council (Switzerland)">Federal Council</a> nor the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Assembly_(Switzerland)" title="Federal Assembly (Switzerland)">two parliamentary chambers</a> endorsing the initiative, and their not even considering providing a counterproposal to the populace.<a href="#cite_note-AI-10">[10]</a> Another mandatory referendum was held on 19 November 1998 about the creation of funds for four major public-transport projects (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: FinöV-Fonds, <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: Fonds FTP, <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>: Fondo FTP), funding them with time-limited CHF 30 billion fund of which the NRLA would receive 13.6 billion. Another major project was the <a href="/wiki/Bahn_2000" class="mw-redirect" title="Bahn 2000">Bahn 2000</a> project regarding the modernization of the railways. The Federal Council's request was approved with 63.5% support.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> The fund is replenished primarily by the previously mentioned kilometre-based tax on heavy-goods vehicles (HVF) and partially by taxes on <a href="/wiki/Gasoline" title="Gasoline">gasoline</a> originally intended for road-building, a small fraction of the <a href="/wiki/VAT" class="mw-redirect" title="VAT">VAT</a> revenues, and funds from the general budget of the Swiss Confederation. The bilateral agreements with the EU containing the 40-tonne limit and the implementation of the HVF were finally accepted by the Swiss populace on 21 May 2000 with 67.2% support in a federal <a href="/wiki/Optional_referendum" title="Optional referendum">optional referendum</a> initiated by opposing political parties.<a href="#cite_note-EUA-9">[9]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Gotthard_axis">Gotthard axis</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=NRLA&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Gotthard axis" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nordportal_Gotthard-Basistunnel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Nordportal_Gotthard-Basistunnel.jpg/290px-Nordportal_Gotthard-Basistunnel.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="219" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="945" data-file-height="714"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 290px;height: 219px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Nordportal_Gotthard-Basistunnel.jpg/290px-Nordportal_Gotthard-Basistunnel.jpg" data-width="290" data-height="219" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Nordportal_Gotthard-Basistunnel.jpg/435px-Nordportal_Gotthard-Basistunnel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Nordportal_Gotthard-Basistunnel.jpg/580px-Nordportal_Gotthard-Basistunnel.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Called "the project of the century", the <a href="/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel" title="Gotthard Base Tunnel">Gotthard Base Tunnel</a> is the first flat route through any major mountain range, from the northern plains (here in <a href="/wiki/Erstfeld" title="Erstfeld">Erstfeld</a>) to the southern plains. In the background here looms the majestic 3,073-metre-high (10,082 ft) <a href="/wiki/Bristen" title="Bristen">Bristen</a> mountain.</figcaption></figure> The Gotthard axis consists of the <a href="/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel" title="Gotthard Base Tunnel">Gotthard Base Tunnel</a> (GBT), the partially operational <a href="/wiki/Zimmerberg_Base_Tunnel" title="Zimmerberg Base Tunnel">Zimmerberg Base Tunnel</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ceneri_Base_Tunnel" title="Ceneri Base Tunnel">Ceneri Base Tunnel</a> (CBT), and surface connections. It was built by AlpTransit Gotthard under contract from the <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Federal_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss Federal Council">Swiss Federal Government</a>. The axis is the first flat trans-alpine rail link, with a maximum elevation of 550 metres (1,800 ft) above sea level. This enables a high-speed link through the Alps with a top speed of 250 km/h (160 mph), reducing travel time between <a href="/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich" class="mw-redirect" title="Zürich">Zürich</a> and <a href="/wiki/Milan" title="Milan">Milan</a> from previously four hours to currently three-and-a-half hours.<a href="#cite_note-ATPOv-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> The 57.1-kilometre (35.5 mi) Gotthard Base Tunnel is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_longest_tunnels" title="List of longest tunnels">world's longest and deepest traffic tunnel</a>,<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-TA2-18">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-BBC_News_2016-19">[19]</a> as was the original 15-kilometre (9.3 mi) Gotthard Tunnel at its completion in 1881. It consists of two parallel single-track tunnels, connected by 178 cross-connections. There are two emergency stations in each tunnel, each connected to the corresponding opposite-tunnel emergency station. These stations are equipped with water supplies to refill firefighter and rescue trains. One (<a href="/wiki/Porta_Alpina" title="Porta Alpina">Porta Alpina</a>) was proposed as an 800m deep rail station, but that proposal was rejected on both economic and technical grounds. AlpTransit Gotthard handed the completed tunnel over to the Swiss government on 31 May 2016. It was formally opened in a ceremony the next day, during which the tunnel was conveyed to its operator: <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Federal_Railways" title="Swiss Federal Railways">Swiss Federal Railways</a> (SBB CFF FFS).<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Lötschberg_axis">Lötschberg axis</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=NRLA&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Lötschberg axis" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> The Lötschberg axis, with the <a href="/wiki/L%C3%B6tschberg_Base_Tunnel" title="Lötschberg Base Tunnel">Lötschberg Base Tunnel</a> (LBT) in the <a href="/wiki/Bernese_Alps" title="Bernese Alps">Bernese Alps</a>, was built by BLS Alp Transit. It supports the western transit network via <a href="/wiki/Basel" title="Basel">Basel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Olten" title="Olten">Olten</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bern" title="Bern">Bern</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brig,_Switzerland" title="Brig, Switzerland">Brig</a>, <a href="/wiki/Domodossola" title="Domodossola">Domodossola</a> and <a href="/wiki/Milan" title="Milan">Milan</a>. The tunnel replaces the existing higher-altitude 1913 14.6-kilometre (9.1 mi) <a href="/wiki/L%C3%B6tschberg_Tunnel" title="Lötschberg Tunnel">Lötschberg Tunnel</a> for most traffic. The 34.6-kilometre-long (21.5 mi) base tunnel opened to traffic on 7 December 2007; it was the first part of the NRLA to be delivered, but is only partially completed. Because of NRLA cost overruns, funding for the axis was diverted to the <a href="/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel" title="Gotthard Base Tunnel">Gotthard Base Tunnel</a> and only one of the tunnel's two bores has been completed and is fully equipped for rail use. 14 kilometers of the other bore are completed; 14 kilometers are excavated but not equipped, and 7 kilometers have not been excavated. High-speed switches allow the completed 40% of the second bore to be used as a passing track,<a href="#cite_note-ATPOv-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-ATPLeo-23">[23]</a> but the 21 kilometres (13 mi) of single track without <a href="/wiki/Passing_loop" title="Passing loop">passing loops</a> complicates operations and greatly reduces the line capacity. Trains are scheduled by batches in each direction which are separated by long intervals; trains more than seven minutes late are routed via the <a href="/wiki/L%C3%B6tschberg_railway" title="Lötschberg railway">old line</a> or must wait for the next available timetable slot in their direction in the tunnel, causing major further delays. A planning contract for the completion of the second track of the LBT was awarded in 2016.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> The resulting plan was presented in Spring 2019, with options of either only fitting out the existing 14 km of unequipped tunnels or fully completing the second tube.<a href="#cite_note-auto-25">[25]</a> In early-2024 the choice was made to go for the full option, with an estimated cost of CHF 1.7 billion<a href="#cite_note-BLS-2024-5">[5]</a> and an expected delivery date of 2033.<a href="#cite_note-TunnelOnline-2020-6">[6]</a> That choice is naturally more expensive and will take two years longer, but it provides a much higher capacity and avoids fully closing the line for eight months.<a href="#cite_note-RailWays-News-26">[26]</a> The second part of the Lötschberg axis is the <a href="/wiki/Simplon_Tunnel" title="Simplon Tunnel">Simplon Tunnel</a>, completed in 1905 as a 20-kilometre-long (12 mi) single-track base tunnel and augmented with a second bore in 1921. It connects <a href="/wiki/Canton_of_Valais" class="mw-redirect" title="Canton of Valais">Upper Valais</a> to <a href="/wiki/Northern_Italy" title="Northern Italy">Northern Italy</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Piedmont" title="Piedmont">Piedmont</a> region. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=NRLA&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Switzerland" title="Rail transport in Switzerland">Rail transport in Switzerland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_Switzerland" title="History of rail transport in Switzerland">History of rail transport in Switzerland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_Switzerland" title="High-speed rail in Switzerland">High-speed rail in Switzerland</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="References">References</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=NRLA&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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