Switzerland

Zurich Cross-City Link operational

The roughly 5 km long Weinberg Tunnel forms the core of the Zurich Cross-City Link on the way to Oerlikon. After the excavation from the end of 2008 until late 2010 and the completion of the inner lining by May 2012, the rail engineering facilities were installed as from July of the same year. The picture shows concrete operations to produce the track slab Quelle/credit (2): SBB CFF FFS
The roughly 5 km long Weinberg Tunnel forms the core of the Zurich Cross-City Link on the way to Oerlikon. After the excavation from the end of 2008 until late 2010 and the completion of the inner lining by May 2012, the rail engineering facilities were installed as from July of the same year. The picture shows concrete operations to produce the track slab
Quelle/credit (2): SBB CFF FFS
Working on the Weinberg Tunnel’s railway track
Working on the Weinberg Tunnel’s railway track

After its inception on June 15, 2014, the 9.6 km long Zurich Cross-City Link (DML) forms a central part of the west-east axis for Swiss rail traffic. The Geneva-Berne-Zurich Airport-St. Gallen is bound to profit most from this increase in capacity.

The DML passes through the City of Zurich from Altstetten via the Central Station to Oerlikon in a wide arc. The underground through station Löwenstraße [1; 2] forms its core; it is 16 m beneath the current tracks 4 to 9 of the dead-end station on the surface. It is roughly 1 km long and possesses 4 tracks with two 450 m long platforms. The new...

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