Kerenzberg tunnel
| Kerenzberg tunnel | ||||
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 Scattered settlement and road crossing Kerenzerberg above the wooded cliff on the southern shore of Lake Walen, right here from the west from Hirzli seen
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| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Ziegelbrücke – Sargans railway line | |||
| place |
Glarus North
(District Mühlehorn ) |
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| length | 3955 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | SBB | |||
| completion | 1960 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| East portal | 731326 / 220011 | |||
| West portal | 727391 / 220747 | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Kerenzberg Tunnel is a 3955 meter long double-track railway tunnel in the canton of Glarus in Switzerland , which replaced a single-track section of the Ziegelbrücke-Sargans line (main axis Zurich-Chur) in 1960 .
location
The tunnel runs in the Kerenzerberg , along the Walensee . In 1986, parallel to the railway tunnel in the kerenzerberg road tunnel of the A3 motorway built.
Building
The tunnel profile was expanded compared to previous tunnels and made slightly elliptical. This enabled the distance between the tracks to be increased from 3.60 to 3.80 m.
history
In the 1850s, the United Swiss Railways, formerly the Swiss Southeast Railway (SOB), built the railway line along the Walensee. The difficult topographical conditions made it necessary to build four tunnels. The four tunnels were called: Hechlenhorn (86 m), Glattwand (111 m), Standenhorn (258 m) and Weisswand-Ofeneck (781 m). The single-lane route meandered between Mühlehorn and Weesen with sometimes tight curves along the lake shore.
After the new railway tunnel was opened in 1960, the SBB ceded the old route to the canton of Glarus for CHF 10 million. He then built the new Walensee Valley Road. The old rail tunnels were expanded accordingly. Until then, all road traffic was carried over the valley pass over the Kerenzerberg.
In 1986, after the opening of the Kerenzer Tunnel of the A3 (south lane, direction Chur), the Talstrasse was converted to the north lane with direction Zurich and a cycle path was built. Today the National Veloroute No. 9, the Lakes Route, leads over it .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Kerenzerberg tunnel of the SBB on Lake Walen , Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Volume 78, from 1960 doi : 10.5169 / seals-64897
- ^ Verkehrsrelakte.de: Am Walensee ( Memento from October 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Cycling in Switzerland: Lakes Route, Stage 9