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The Old Gotthard Tunnel Route - Driver's Eye View
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The Old Gotthard Tunnel Route - Driver's Eye View

The original Gotthard railway tunnel through the Swiss Alps, took ten years to build and cost 147 lives. It was a mammoth undertaking and required the construction of long ramps on either side totalling 85 miles. Dozens of tunnels, viaducts and bridges were necessary. The ruling gradient of 1 in 37 was deemed to be just about the maximum that the original steam locomotives could handle, even then, trains were usually double-headed and even had banking engines attached at the rear! In order even to keep to this severe gradient, the engineers had to construct a number of additional spiral tunnels to gain height, hewn out of solid rock…

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Release DateOctober 1, 2018
StatusReleased
Original TitleThe Old Gotthard Tunnel Route - Driver's Eye View
Runtime1h 52min
Budget—
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LanguageEnglish
Original LanguageEnglish
Production CountriesUnited Kingdom
Production CompaniesVideo 125

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