iL Dottore Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 Quite a pleasing week for Swiss railways recently. The consortium building the Gotthard Base Tunnel made it's breakthrough (see: http://www.swissinfo...ml?cid=28532002). Unfortunately, for various reasons, it is not expected to be operational until 2017. But when it does, then perhaps we will we see Trenitalia TGVs run all the way from Milan to London in a reasonable time (the French permitting)? It's an amazing technical achievement (longest railway tunnel in the world) and just shows what can be achieved for the railways by politicians of b**** and conviction F I do recall, somewhere in mists of time, someone claiming that one of the advantages of the Gotthard Base Tunnel (coupled with TGV services) would be the possibility to work in Zurich (Swiss salary ) and to live in Milan/Northern Italy (Italian food and la dolce vita). Doubt that it'd work the other way, though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 Let's hope that some one like DB gets their act together to run these long distance through trains. I'm off to Amsterdam by rail in November from Leeds and have ended up with tickets for the three parts of the journey. DB as they run trains in many parts should be able to do a through ticket - espescially when they get ICE3-UK (ICE4 ?) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted October 22, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 22, 2010 A great achievement. Fascinating stuff on the link. The video and slideshow links are worth a look. Thanks Flavio. There appears to be fears of the bottlenecks at either end when operational. Must get a final trip to Göschenen to see all those lovely long double headed freights before it opens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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