Tunnels built for trains, through the Alps and under the Channel and the Tsugaru Strait. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the tunnel a rail tunnel or a tunnel carrying rail. It excludes road tunnels. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members. It is one of the groups under the Tunnels subcategory of the Transport atlas, which has its own browse page listing every group and member.
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Wikipedia: Channel Tunnel
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The Channel Tunnel (French: Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to as the Chunnel, is a 50.46-kilometre (31.35-mile) railway tunnel beneath the English Channel which connects Folkestone in the United Kingdom with Coquelles in northern France.
Gotthard Base Tunnel (Wikipedia)
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The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT; German: Gotthard-Basistunnel, Italian: Galleria di base del San Gottardo, Romansh: Tunnel da basa dal Sogn Gottard) is a railway tunnel through the Alps in Switzerland.
Wikipedia: Seikan Tunnel
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segment running beneath the seabed of the Tsugaru Strait, which separates Aomori Prefecture on Honshu, Japan's main island, from the northern island of Hokkaido.
Wikipedia: Frejus Rail Tunnel
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The Fréjus Rail Tunnel (also called Mont Cenis Tunnel) is a rail tunnel of 13.7 km (8.5 mi) length in the European Alps, carrying the Turin-Modane railway through Mont Cenis to an end-on connection with the Culoz-Modane railway and linking Bardonecchia in Italy to Modane in France.
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