Overview | |
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Line | Koralmbahn |
Location | Styria/Carinthia (Austria) |
Coordinates | 46°45′12″N 15°1′52″E / 46.75333°N 15.03111°E |
Status | under construction |
Start | Frauental |
End | Sankt Andrä |
Operation | |
Work begun | 2008 |
Opens | 2026 |
Traffic | railway |
Technical | |
Length | 32.9 km |
No. of tracks | 2 single-track tunnels |
The Koralm Tunnel is a railway tunnel that is under construction in Austria under the Koralpe mountain range. It forms one section of the 130 km (81 mi)-long Koralm Railway which will link Graz with Klagenfurt.
Once complete, the Koralm Tunnel shall be Austria's longest railway tunnel, possessing a length of 32.9 km (20.4 mi) while running at depths of up to 1,250 m (4,100 ft) below ground.[1][2] It comprises a pair of tunnels running in parallel, each capable of carrying a single railway track, which will be linked together every 500 metres (1,600 ft).