On November 11, 2000, a funicular train carrying 161 passengers entered a tunnel in Kaprun, Austria—but never emerged. Power went out, communication was lost, and a disaster was unfolding in the ...

For many, train journeys are some of the most efficient and relaxing ways to get to their desired destination, helped no end by the tunnels that allow them to cut straight through hills and mountains.

A few of the tunnels were reinforced with timber to prevent fractured rock from falling on rail cars and workers. Some of ...

Originally, a fixed-link ferry was thought to be the main plan, but when five ferries sank in 1954, an idea for a train tunnel was put forward—especially as planned economic growth would have ...

has sunk by more than 3 centimeters near the construction site of the Komamba tunnel for the Linear Chuo Shinkansen maglev train line. The company attributed the problem to the excavation work ...