Landwasser tunnel (train)

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Landwasser tunnel
Landwasser tunnel
Entry of a train from the Landwasser Viaduct into the Landwasser Tunnel.
use Railway tunnel
traffic connection Albula Railway
place Filisur
length 216 mdep1
Number of tubes 1
construction
Client Rhaetian Railway
start of building 1898
completion October 1902
business
operator Rhaetian Railway
release July 1, 1903
location
Landwasser tunnel (train) (Albula Alps)
Red pog.svg
Red pog.svg
Coordinates
Landwasser Viaduct portal 771205  /  172369
Filisur portal 771147  /  172185
Panorama car of the Glacier Express at the entrance to the Landwasser tunnel. Portal as an abutment for the bridge, on the right a pipe opening for drainage of the tunnel.
Aerial view of the Landwasser Tunnel.

The Landwasser Tunnel is a 216 m long tunnel between the Landwasser Viaduct and Filisur train station on the Albula Line of the Rhaetian Railway in the Albula Alps . Around 60 trains pass through it every day, one of which is the famous Glacier Express .

The tunnel portal on the Landwasser Viaduct side is about three times higher than the tunnel opening and also serves as an abutment for the bridge.

The Landwasser Viaduct and the Landwasser Tunnel together describe an arc with a radius of 100 m and an angle of 156 ° up to the center of the tunnel. Then the tunnel turns into the opposite curve. The radius of the bridge and tunnel corresponds to the minimum curve radius of the Rhaetian Railway.

Less known, although about 12 times longer, is the Landwasser Tunnel of the same name, 5 kilometers away, for road traffic between Tiefencastel and Davos .

Section of the Albula Railway around the Landwasser Tunnel
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system : 11 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Legend
Station, station
 53.95 Tiefencastel 884  m above sea level M.
   
 Lehnen Viaduct (27 m)
   
 Lehnen Viaduct (68 m)
Tunnel - if there are several tunnels in a row
 Tiefencastel (26 m)
Station, station
 58.13 Surava 939  m above sea level M.
   
 Ava da Crappa Naira (15 m)
   
 Per quarta (32 m)
   
 Lehnen Viaduct (34 m)
Station, station
 60.78 Alvaneu 999  m above sea level M.
   
 Schmittentobel (137 m)
Tunnel - if there are several tunnels in a row
 Zalaint (27 m)
   
 Lehnen Viaduct (21 m)
   
 Landwasser Viaduct (136 m)
Tunnel - if there are several tunnels in a row
 Landwasser (216 m)
   
 Savings sheet (31 m)
   
 from Davos Platz
Station, station
 64.36 Filisur 1080  m above sea level M.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tunnel labeling on the portals. Deviating from this, 217 m in KM: The new lines of the Rhaetian Railway: the arched bridges of the Albula Railway in: Schweizerische Bauzeitung , Vol. 43/44 (1904), p. 42.
  2. ↑ KM: The new lines of the Rhaetian Railway: the arched bridges of the Albula Railway in: Schweizerische Bauzeitung , Vol. 43/44 (1904), p. 42.
  3. ↑ Technical data of the Rhaetian Railway at Rail-Info, accessed on July 3, 2013.