Huge tunnel network creates new railway link through the Alps
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Huge tunnel network creates new railway link through the Alps
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Lötschberg railway - Wikipedia
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New Rail Link: inside Switzerland's largest ever construction project - Future Rail, Issue 86
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the EU is building an $11billion tunnel connecting scandinavia to the mediterranean
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Switzerland's St. Gotthard Base Tunnel Will Be the World's Longest Ever Rail Tunnel When it Opens June 1st - Bloomberg
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The $27BN Railway Through a Mountain
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New Rail Link: inside Switzerland's largest ever construction project - Future Rail, Issue 86
$12 billion tunnel under the Alps sets record – The Durango Herald
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World's longest, deepest rail tunnel opens in Switzerland after almost 20 years of construction
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Traffic partially resumes in the Gotthard Base Tunnel
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Switzerland's brilliant new train route: direct from Montreux to Interlaken, Switzerland holidays
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Why Switzerland built a 2-kilometer-long train
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