On August 10, a northbound freight train derailed in the 57-kilometer-long Gotthard Base Tunnel, and since then both tubes have been closed. All passenger traffic, as well as freight traffic that can pass through the smaller profile, travels via the Gotthard mountain route, today also called the panorama route. "Giruno" highspeed trains RABe 501 # 026 "Basel-Stadt" and # 017 "Fribourg" of the SBB in multiple control are rounding the Wattinger curve between Gurtnellen and Wassen with train 10873 from Zürich to Lugano. The velocity for this passenger trains is 80 km/h here.
