{"id":12126,"date":"2016-06-02T08:26:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T08:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=12126"},"modified":"2016-06-02T08:26:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T08:26:48","slug":"worlds-longest-rail-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/worlds-longest-rail-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s longest rail tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Question: Recently the world&#8217;s longest railway tunnel, Gotthard is built in which of the following country?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Switzerland<br \/>\n(b) Spain<br \/>\n(c) Russia<br \/>\n(d) France<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>On 29 May 2016 the final phase of operational testing of world&#8217;s longest and deepest railroad tunnel \u201cGotthard Base Tunnel\u201d has concluded.<\/li>\n<li>The 57-kilometer (35-mile) two-single track Gotthard Base Tunnel is one of the main railroads of Alps.<\/li>\n<li>It will connect the northern and southern Europe.<\/li>\n<li>It is officially opened on June 1, 2016 but its full service is expected to start in December, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Total cost of the project is 9.8 billion Swiss francs, or US$10 billion.<\/li>\n<li>The idea to build this tunnel was born 69 years ago: Swiss engineer Eduard Gruner first came up with the concept in 1947.<\/li>\n<li>Gotthard Base Tunnel will overtake Japan&#8217;s 53.9-kilometer Seikan Tunnel as the world&#8217;s longest train tunnel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/the-worlds-longest-rail-tunnel-the-gotthard-base-tunnel\/a-19293039\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/the-worlds-longest-rail-tunnel-the-gotthard-base-tunnel\/a-19293039<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2016\/05\/28\/swiss-worlds-longest-deepest-rail-tunnel\/84618294\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2016\/05\/28\/swiss-worlds-longest-deepest-rail-tunnel\/84618294\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently the world&#8217;s longest railway tunnel, Gotthard is built in which of the following country? (a) Switzerland (b) Spain (c) Russia (d) France Ans: (a) Related facts: On 29 May 2016 the final phase of operational testing of world&#8217;s longest and deepest railroad tunnel \u201cGotthard Base Tunnel\u201d has concluded. The 57-kilometer (35-mile) two-single track [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}