THROUGH THE ALPS.
THE LOETSCHBERC TUNNEL.
A NOTABLE UNDERTAKING
The Loetschberg tunnel through the Alps has been pierced. A notable engineering project having thus been successfully accomplished after five and a half years’ work and the expenditure of £4,000,000. ... ... The tunnel was planned in order to give the other great underground passage the Simplon Tunnel, direct communication with the lines tiaveismg Switzerland from north to south. It is the third largest tunnel m the world, having an approximate length of nine miles, and will he laid with a double track of rails. rThe Loetschberg Tunnel, which was begun in August, 1906, will, it is claimed, eventually _be the shortest, and, in every probability, the quickest of any routes that can be made through France or through Switzerland 'between Boulogne or Calais and Brindisi, in conjunction with the feimplon Tunnel and the central artery of the Italian railway system, which it will join at Piacenza.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3194, 13 April 1911, Page 5
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154THROUGH THE ALPS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3194, 13 April 1911, Page 5
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