Lettentunnel

Barred north portal of the tunnel (2011)

Railway lines in the center of Zurich with the disused part of the Rechtsufige Seebahn in gray - Lettentunnel between Letten station and Stadelhofen station

The Lettentunnel was a 2,093 meter long, single-lane railway tunnel in Zurich .

It was located between the Letten and Stadelhofen city ​​railway stations and was part of the Lettenlinie opened on October 1, 1894 , a section of the right bank sea line of the Swiss Northeast Railway (NOB), which became part of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in 1902 . The tunnel was shut down together with the Lettenlinie on May 27, 1989 and replaced by the Hirschengraben tunnel.

There were no concrete plans for further use. When the drug scene settled on the banks of the Limmat near Upper Letten in 1992 , the SBB stopped maintaining the facilities. After the scene was cleared in 1995, part of the facilities was dismantled, one track to the tunnel remained accessible. Since no subsequent use could be found and the Lettentunnel threatened to collapse in places, it was filled up between October 2002 and spring 2004.

Web links

• Gang dur Alt-Züri: Former Letten train station (with information about the tunnel)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The end of a black hole, filling of the Lettentunnel and new use of the area , Neue Zürcher Zeitung on August 28, 2002.