Severn St. Clair, Grand Trunk railway, Port Huron
(single tube) Hudson River, New York, 2 tubes (shield) Detroit River, Windsor (World's oldest immersed
steel tube)| Country | Tunnel | Length | Year completed |
| England - Wales | Severn |
7 008 m | 1886 |
| Canada - USA | St. Clair, Grand Trunk railway, Port Huron
(single tube) |
1 835 m | 24.10.1891 |
| USA | Hudson River, New York, 2 tubes (shield) |
1 730 m | 1905 |
| Canada - USA | Detroit River, Windsor (World's oldest immersed
steel tube) |
2 557 m | 10.1910 |
| Japan | Kanmon (2 single track tubes) | 3 613 m | 1942/1944 |
| USA | San Francisco Trans-Bay (immersed tube) | 5 600 m | 1974 |
| Japan | Shin Kanmon | 18 716 m | 1975 |
| Japan | Sei-kan (Tsugaru kaikyo) | 53 850 m | 1988 |
| England - France | Channel tunnel | 50 450 m | 1994 |
| Canada - USA | New St. Clair (Sarnia, Ontario - Port Huron, Michigan) | 1 870 m | 05.05.1995 |
| Denmark | Storebælt | 8 024 m | 1997 |
| Denmark | Øresund (immersed tube Denmark-Sweden) | 4 050 m | 2000 |
| Turkey | Marmaray, Bosphorous strait, Istanbul | 13 600 m | 28.10.2013 |
| Country | Tunnel | Length |
| China | Mainland - Taiwan | 125 km |
| Estonia - Finland | Tallin - Helsinki | 54 - 80 km |
| Finland - Sweden | Umeå - Vaasa | 25 - 48 km |
| Ireland - Wales | Dublin - Holyhead, Irish Sea | 95 km |
| Japan - Korea | Tsushima-kaikyo (Strait)
and Korean Strait
|
55 + 65 km |
| Russia - Ukraine | Kerch Strait (Krasnodar - Krym) | 45 000 m |
| Marokko - Spain | Gibraltar | 38.7 km |
| Russia | Sakhalin (Tunnel under
Tatarskij Proliv) Stalin's forced-labor project to link Sahalin to the mainland, abadoned after a few km, at present intent but no money to finish it |
10 - 20 km |
| Russia - USA | Bering Strait |
74.4 km |
The World's
longest Railway tunnels
© 2007. Copying from the data pages is not allowed without adding the source name: "The World's longest Tunnel Page"
This page was last modified on January 28.10.2013
