Lötschberg car train tunnel thing is ten miles of underground nightmaresville
July 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Lötschberg car train tunnel thing is ten miles of underground nightmaresville
97. Completion of the double-tracking of the Lötschberg Base Tunnel.
August 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
97. Completion of the double-tracking of the Lötschberg Base Tunnel.
Passing through the Swiss Alps by means of the #Lötschberg tunnel car-carrying train earlier today. The #BLS Re4/4 in their classic brown livery, lined up at #Kandersteg yard, used to be the main work horses on the line for many years.
July 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Passing through the Swiss Alps by means of the #Lötschberg tunnel car-carrying train earlier today. The #BLS Re4/4 in their classic brown livery, lined up at #Kandersteg yard, used to be the main work horses on the line for many years.
The Northern portal of the Lötschberg Base Tunnel is here, used primarily by Intercity and EuroCity traffic travelling from Bern to Brig or Italy. BLS regional trains like this one however take the longer yet more scenic Lötschberg Line, the original route prior to 2007… 🇨🇭
April 5, 2026 at 4:52 PM
The Northern portal of the Lötschberg Base Tunnel is here, used primarily by Intercity and EuroCity traffic travelling from Bern to Brig or Italy. BLS regional trains like this one however take the longer yet more scenic Lötschberg Line, the original route prior to 2007… 🇨🇭
Good Morning from the #SBB🇨🇭#elvetino #DiningCar on this #InterCity from #Basel to #Brig via #Bern, #Spiez and the #Lötschberg base tunnel. #Breakfast as we catch a glimpse of Lake Thunersee.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Good Morning from the #SBB🇨🇭#elvetino #DiningCar on this #InterCity from #Basel to #Brig via #Bern, #Spiez and the #Lötschberg base tunnel. #Breakfast as we catch a glimpse of Lake Thunersee.
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In most places, cars and freeways have erased trains and tracks. In #Switzlerland, trains are so ubiquitous they've found a way to absorb cars.
Case in point: To get through the Lötschberg Tunnel, drivers roll right on to open-sided railway cars, + stay inside their vehicles for the 20-mn ride.
🇨🇭🚂🧵
Case in point: To get through the Lötschberg Tunnel, drivers roll right on to open-sided railway cars, + stay inside their vehicles for the 20-mn ride.
🇨🇭🚂🧵
December 30, 2024 at 8:55 PM
In most places, cars and freeways have erased trains and tracks. In #Switzlerland, trains are so ubiquitous they've found a way to absorb cars.
Case in point: To get through the Lötschberg Tunnel, drivers roll right on to open-sided railway cars, + stay inside their vehicles for the 20-mn ride.
🇨🇭🚂🧵
Case in point: To get through the Lötschberg Tunnel, drivers roll right on to open-sided railway cars, + stay inside their vehicles for the 20-mn ride.
🇨🇭🚂🧵
Good morning from a very sunny Brig! 🇨🇭
I’ve arrived on MGB from my hotel in Mörel and just noticed a nice old departure board on these platforms
Now I’ve got a pendolino taking me north through the Lötschberg base tunnel towards Bern 😁
I’ve arrived on MGB from my hotel in Mörel and just noticed a nice old departure board on these platforms
Now I’ve got a pendolino taking me north through the Lötschberg base tunnel towards Bern 😁
June 14, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Good morning from a very sunny Brig! 🇨🇭
I’ve arrived on MGB from my hotel in Mörel and just noticed a nice old departure board on these platforms
Now I’ve got a pendolino taking me north through the Lötschberg base tunnel towards Bern 😁
I’ve arrived on MGB from my hotel in Mörel and just noticed a nice old departure board on these platforms
Now I’ve got a pendolino taking me north through the Lötschberg base tunnel towards Bern 😁
Good morning from the #SBB🇨🇭#elvetino @diningcar.at Enjoying a (late,second) breakfast ☕️🥐 in the #Bistro section. It is located at the lower deck of this #IC2000 double-deck car as we speed at 200kph through the #Lötschberg base tunnel.
November 13, 2024 at 10:13 AM
Good morning from the #SBB🇨🇭#elvetino @diningcar.at Enjoying a (late,second) breakfast ☕️🥐 in the #Bistro section. It is located at the lower deck of this #IC2000 double-deck car as we speed at 200kph through the #Lötschberg base tunnel.
On the #Lötschberg🇨🇭 tunnel car-carrying train from #Goppenstein to #Kandersteg. (There’s no road tunnel up here.) In front of us: a sheep trailer marked “Tiertransport” - and you can hear their baa and meh. They’re going home after having spent the summer in the #Valais Alps. 🐏🐑😊
October 1, 2024 at 4:24 PM
On the #Lötschberg🇨🇭 tunnel car-carrying train from #Goppenstein to #Kandersteg. (There’s no road tunnel up here.) In front of us: a sheep trailer marked “Tiertransport” - and you can hear their baa and meh. They’re going home after having spent the summer in the #Valais Alps. 🐏🐑😊
Der 34,6km lange Lötschberg-Basistunnel zwischen Frutigen im Berner Oberland und Raron im Wallis unterquert die Wildhorn- und die Doldenhorn-Decke sowie das Aarmassiv. Am 16. Juni 2007 ging der Tunnel in Betrieb. Im Tunnel befindet sich ein Restaurant von Elvetino. 🇨🇭👩🍳🚅
December 10, 2023 at 10:45 AM
Der 34,6km lange Lötschberg-Basistunnel zwischen Frutigen im Berner Oberland und Raron im Wallis unterquert die Wildhorn- und die Doldenhorn-Decke sowie das Aarmassiv. Am 16. Juni 2007 ging der Tunnel in Betrieb. Im Tunnel befindet sich ein Restaurant von Elvetino. 🇨🇭👩🍳🚅
Première expérience aujourd'hui avec une navette ferroviaire pour voitures (auto-trains) circulant entre Kandersteg et Goppenstein à travers le tunnel du Lötschberg (14,612 m). 🇨🇭
August 8, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Première expérience aujourd'hui avec une navette ferroviaire pour voitures (auto-trains) circulant entre Kandersteg et Goppenstein à travers le tunnel du Lötschberg (14,612 m). 🇨🇭
We're in Switzerland now as well. Today we drove our car onto a railway car to travel the Lotschberg tunnel. Very cool!
July 10, 2026 at 3:07 PM
We're in Switzerland now as well. Today we drove our car onto a railway car to travel the Lotschberg tunnel. Very cool!
Changement de train a Spiez, avant d'emprunter le tunnel de base du Lötschberg 🚞
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_...
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_...
March 19, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Changement de train a Spiez, avant d'emprunter le tunnel de base du Lötschberg 🚞
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fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_...
they did! meanwhile Geneva is still cut off from the rest of the country any time someone sneezes wrong in Renens 🫠
www.bls.ch/en/unternehm...
www.bls.ch/en/unternehm...
BLS is upgrading the Lötschberg Base Tunnel
The Lötschberg Base Tunnel is the centrepiece of the BLS infrastructure and a central element of the NRLA, the New Rail Link through the Alps. BLS upgrades the Tunnel.
www.bls.ch
August 1, 2025 at 3:27 AM
they did! meanwhile Geneva is still cut off from the rest of the country any time someone sneezes wrong in Renens 🫠
www.bls.ch/en/unternehm...
www.bls.ch/en/unternehm...
Harking back to Leukerbad, when the new Lötschberg base tunnel was being built through the same massif as its waters percolate through, more hot water was discovered. So they use it to heat glasshouses and grow mangos (etc) in well-named Frutigen. #FinalProblem2024
August 31, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Harking back to Leukerbad, when the new Lötschberg base tunnel was being built through the same massif as its waters percolate through, more hot water was discovered. So they use it to heat glasshouses and grow mangos (etc) in well-named Frutigen. #FinalProblem2024
The main reason this diligence/bus still exists, is that when the classic Lötschberg railway was the main line, they closed the stations between Kandersteg and Frutigen to release capacity for expresses and freight. Despite the base tunnel, they’ve not reopened. #FinalProblem2024
August 31, 2024 at 10:22 AM
The main reason this diligence/bus still exists, is that when the classic Lötschberg railway was the main line, they closed the stations between Kandersteg and Frutigen to release capacity for expresses and freight. Despite the base tunnel, they’ve not reopened. #FinalProblem2024
The only other route, before the Lötschberg tunnel opened, would have been a 200km diversion via Lausanne. So since the 15th century, travellers - including the first Thomas Cook Swiss holiday - have climbed a twisting, treacherous path up that rock face. #FinalProblem2024
August 31, 2024 at 5:29 AM
The only other route, before the Lötschberg tunnel opened, would have been a 200km diversion via Lausanne. So since the 15th century, travellers - including the first Thomas Cook Swiss holiday - have climbed a twisting, treacherous path up that rock face. #FinalProblem2024
From Spiez the train went through the 15km long Lötschberg tunnel to Visp, where I had a rather too close for comfort connection.
The scenery has become even more dramatic, the weather even sunnier and, as we climb, more snow on the ground.
The scenery has become even more dramatic, the weather even sunnier and, as we climb, more snow on the ground.
March 23, 2026 at 12:52 PM
From Spiez the train went through the 15km long Lötschberg tunnel to Visp, where I had a rather too close for comfort connection.
The scenery has become even more dramatic, the weather even sunnier and, as we climb, more snow on the ground.
The scenery has become even more dramatic, the weather even sunnier and, as we climb, more snow on the ground.
Simplon Tunnel und dann Lötschberg Tunnel,durch den 2. und 3. längsten Tunnel
May 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Simplon Tunnel und dann Lötschberg Tunnel,durch den 2. und 3. längsten Tunnel
Kandersteg is now best known as where cars are loaded onto trains to travel through the Lötschberg tunnel - there’s still no road to the Valais. The railway was 24yrs away when Holmes passed here, but Kandersteg was undergoing a tourist boom of Gemmi travellers. #FinalProblem2024
August 31, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Kandersteg is now best known as where cars are loaded onto trains to travel through the Lötschberg tunnel - there’s still no road to the Valais. The railway was 24yrs away when Holmes passed here, but Kandersteg was undergoing a tourist boom of Gemmi travellers. #FinalProblem2024
Today, an avalanche cut off railway and road to the Lötschental. www.lenouvelliste.ch/valais/haut-...
Avalanche: le Lötschental coupé du trafic
Une avalanche a coupé l’entrée du Lötschental, peu après le tunnel routier du Lötschberg. Le trafic est interrompu au moins jusqu’au début de la soirée.
www.lenouvelliste.ch
February 12, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Today, an avalanche cut off railway and road to the Lötschental. www.lenouvelliste.ch/valais/haut-...
Ooh, I've done that through the Lötschberg tunnel in that Switzerland.
September 8, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Ooh, I've done that through the Lötschberg tunnel in that Switzerland.
From the diagrams, it looks like all mountain crossings/tunnels will be single track .
The en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6... actually was built as partially single track, with a parallel rescue tunnel for single track sections.
So it is definitely possible to double track this in the future.
The en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6... actually was built as partially single track, with a parallel rescue tunnel for single track sections.
So it is definitely possible to double track this in the future.
Lötschberg Base Tunnel - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lötschberg_Base_Tunnel
April 2, 2026 at 3:22 PM
From the diagrams, it looks like all mountain crossings/tunnels will be single track .
The en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6... actually was built as partially single track, with a parallel rescue tunnel for single track sections.
So it is definitely possible to double track this in the future.
The en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6... actually was built as partially single track, with a parallel rescue tunnel for single track sections.
So it is definitely possible to double track this in the future.
Random thoughts about infrastructure:
How long to complete the EIR for the deep tunnel sewer systems in Chicago and Milwaukee?
How Swiss deal with EIR for Gotthard Base Tunnel and Lötschberg Base Tunnel?
How long to complete the EIR for the deep tunnel sewer systems in Chicago and Milwaukee?
How Swiss deal with EIR for Gotthard Base Tunnel and Lötschberg Base Tunnel?
December 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Random thoughts about infrastructure:
How long to complete the EIR for the deep tunnel sewer systems in Chicago and Milwaukee?
How Swiss deal with EIR for Gotthard Base Tunnel and Lötschberg Base Tunnel?
How long to complete the EIR for the deep tunnel sewer systems in Chicago and Milwaukee?
How Swiss deal with EIR for Gotthard Base Tunnel and Lötschberg Base Tunnel?