List of long tunnels by type
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This page presents the same tunnels as in list of tunnels by length in separate lists according to the different tunnel types.


Rail

Note: ''This list only contains tunnels that are longer than .''


Under construction

Note: ''This list only contains tunnels that are longer than .''


Underground rapid transit

Only continuous tunnel sections should be included, at least long, excluding branches from the longest tunnel.


Under construction

Only continuous tunnel sections should be included, at least long.


Road


Under construction


Water


Under construction

Note: There are buried oil and gas pipelines, up to several thousand kilometers long. See also: *
List of oil pipelines This is a list of oil pipelines. Africa * Chad–Cameroon pipeline – Chad–Cameroon * Sudeth pipeline – South Sudan–Ethiopia (under construction) * Transnet Pipelines – South Africa * Sumed pipeline – Egypt * Tazama Pipeline – Tanzan ...
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List of natural gas pipelines This is a list of pipelines used to transport natural gas. Africa * Trans-Saharan gas pipeline (planned) * West African Gas Pipeline * Escravos–Lagos Pipeline System Asia * Altai gas pipeline (planned) * Arab Gas Pipeline * Pak Arab Pipeli ...


Bicycle and pedestrian


Sewerage

* Spotswood sewer tunnel


Power

* London Power Tunnels * Azabu-Hibiya Common Utility Duct


Gas

* Humber Gas Tunnel


Bored

* Channel Tunnel


Cut-and-cover A tunnel is an underground passageway, dug through surrounding soil, earth or rock, and enclosed except for the entrance and exit, commonly at each end. A pipeline is not a tunnel, though some recent tunnels have used immersed tube cons ...

* Metropolitan Railway


Mined


Drill and blast

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Lötschberg Base Tunnel , line = Lötschberg Line , location = Traversing the Bernese Alps in Switzerland , coordinates = – , system = BLS, SBB CFF FFS , status = , start = Frutigen, canton of Bern, , end = Raro ...


Immersed tube An immersed tube (or immersed tunnel) is a kind of undersea tunnel composed of segments, constructed elsewhere and floated to the tunnel site to be sunk into place and then linked together. They are commonly used for road and rail crossings of ...

* Conwy Tunnel *
Medway Tunnel The Medway Tunnel is a tunnel under the River Medway linking Strood with Chatham in Kent, England. It forms part of the A289 Medway Towns Northern Relief Road. The Medway Tunnel is the first immersed tube tunnel to be built in England and onl ...


Double-decker or multi-level

* Black Hill tunnels (rail) *
Central Kowloon Route The Central Kowloon Route (CKR) is a highway project under construction in Kowloon, Hong Kong. When completed in 2025, it will form the section of the planned Route 6 which runs through the Kowloon Peninsula, largely underground. The three-lane du ...
(partly) https://scmp.com/article/233214/smaller-road-tunnel-will-spare-housing?id=EunkeIEeSfIJ (road) *
Great Istanbul Tunnel The Great Istanbul Tunnel ( tr, Büyük İstanbul Tüneli) is a proposed multi-use highway and railway undersea tunnel in Istanbul, Turkey to cross the Bosphorus strait. Project The project was officially announced by Prime minister Ahmet Davut ...
(rail and road) (proposed; triple-decker) *
Island line Island Line or Island line may refer to: * Island line (MTR), one of the lines of the MTR metro system in Hong Kong * Island Line, Isle of Wight, a railway line on the Isle of Wight, England ** Island Line (brand) Island Line is a brand of the ...
- three stretches: between Sheung Wan and Admiralty stations, between Fortress Hill and Admiralty stations, and between Tai Koo and Shau Kei Wan stations (rail) *
Kwun Tong line The Kwun Tong line is a heavy-rail rapid transit line of the MTR network in Hong Kong, coloured green on the MTR map. Starting at Whampoa station, Whampoa in Hung Hom and ending at Tiu Keng Leng station, Tiu Keng Leng in Tseung Kwan O, S ...
and
Tsuen Wan line The Tsuen Wan line is one of the eleven lines of the metro network in Hong Kong's MTR. It is indicated in red on the MTR map. There are 16 stations on the line. The southern terminus is Central station on Hong Kong Island and the no ...
between Prince Edward and Yau Ma Tei stations * Lion Rock Tunnel and Second Lion Rock Tunnel (road, and water and towngas supply) * LIRR Manhattan Tunnel (rail) * (road) * Narodnogo Opolcheniya street tunnel (road) *
State Route 99 tunnel The State Route 99 tunnel, also known as the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel, is a bored highway tunnel in the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. The , double-decker tunnel carries a section of State Route 99 (SR 99) under ...
(road)


See also

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List of long railway tunnels in China The Chinese railway tunnels are divided into four classes by length: # Super-long tunnels (over 10,000 metres) # Long tunnels (between 3,000 and 10,000 metres) # Middle tunnels (between 500 and 3,000 metres) # Short tunnels (less than 500 metres) ...
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List of long road tunnels in China There are four classes of road tunnels in China by length. # Super-long tunnel (>3,000m) # Long tunnel (1,000m-3,000m) # Middle-tunnel (250m-1,000m) # Short tunnel (<250m) By 2012, there are 10,022 road tunnels and 8,052.7 km in total len ...
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List of longest bridges in the world This is a list of the world's longest bridges that are more than in length sorted by their full length above land and water. The main span is the longest span without any ground support. '' Note: There is no standard way to measure the total l ...
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List of longest tunnels This list of longest tunnels ranks tunnels that are at least long. Only continuous tunnels are included. Pipelines, even those that are buried, are excluded. The longest tunnels have been constructed for water distribution, followed by tunnels ...
* List of tunnels *
Tunnel A tunnel is an underground passageway, dug through surrounding soil, earth or rock, and enclosed except for the entrance and exit, commonly at each end. A pipeline is not a tunnel, though some recent tunnels have used immersed tube cons ...


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