Swiss federal railway company SBB intends to launch a new high speed service between Zurich and Milan, reducing the travel time to two hours 45 minutes from the current time of three and a half to four hours. The project, called Superveloce, will launch in 2020 on the opening of the Ceneri tunnel, which completes the new rail line through the Alps, of which the Gotthard Base Tunnel is a part.
The opening of the Ceneri tunnel will also allow longer goods trains with a bigger capacity to travel on the line. Despite the success of the line since the opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, there are still many challenges, according to SBB. Currently, goods trains are subjected to long delays at border crossings in Ticino and Basel. “That is one of the main stumbling blocks that SBB wants to resolve in collaboration with their neighbours before the Ceneri tunnel is put in service,” said the company. International coordination is “imperative” if the north-south axis is to gain in productivity.
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