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Highway and road tunnels

Expressways

Highways

Road

Railway tunnels

There are 76 railway tunnels in use in Slovakia. Most significant are:

  • The longest ever: Harmanec Tunnel (in operation, Banská Bystrica - Dolná Štubňa track, 4,698 m)
  • The longest double-track and electrified: Bujanov Tunnel (in operation, Margecany - Košice track, 3,411 m)
  • The oldest (1848): Lamačský Tunnel (in operation, Bratislava - Kúty track, 704 m)
  • Last opened (2013): Turecký vrch Tunnel (in operation, Bratislava - Žilina track, 1,775 m)
  • The shortest: Turček Tunnel, (in operation, Zvolen - Diviaky track, 37.7 m)
  • Highest by attitude: Tunel Vyšné Hágy (out of operation, Vyšné Hágy sanatorium area, 170 m length, 1123 meters above sea level)

Besides these there are 9 more railway tunnels, which are abandoned or never finished and 2 more railway tunnels under construction. There is a tramway tunnel in Bratislava, too.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.dialnice.info/images/docs/mapa_tunelov.pdf
  2. https://www.rail.sk/skhist/cestne/stratena.htm | in Slovak
  3. https://www.rail.sk/skhist/tunely.htm | in Slovak
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