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Railways Using Three-Phase Power: Simplon Tunnel, Jungfraubahn, Petit Train de La Rhune, Gornergratbahn, Corcovado Rack Railway

Railways Using Three-Phase Power: Simplon Tunnel, Jungfraubahn, Petit Train de La Rhune, Gornergratbahn, Corcovado Rack Railway


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Chapters: Simplon Tunnel, Jungfraubahn, Petit train de la Rhune, Gornergratbahn, Corcovado Rack Railway, Ferrovia Alifana, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Simplon Tunnel is an Alpine railway tunnel that connects the Swiss town of Brig with Domodossola in Italy, though its relatively straight trajectory does not run under Simplon Pass itself. It actually consists of two single-track tunnels built nearly 20 years apart. It was the longest railway tunnel in the world until the opening of the Seikan Tunnel in 1988 (see World's longest tunnels). Work on the first tube of the Simplon tunnel commenced in 1898. The Italian king Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and the president of the Swiss National Council Ludwig Forrer opened the tunnel at Brig on 10 May 1906. The builders of the tunnel were Hermann Haustler and Hugo von Kager and the tunnel is 19,700 meters (64,633 ft) long. Work on the second tube of the tunnel started in 1912 and it was opened in 1921; it is 19,824 meters (65,039 ft) long. To Zermatt/Lausanne/Geneva Shortly after the opening of the first railway in Switzerland, each region began to favour a separate north-south link through the Alps towards Italy. Eastern Switzerland supported a line through the Splugen or the Lukmanier Pass, Central Switzerland and Zurich favoured the Gotthard Pass and Western Switzerland supported the Simplon route. In 1871 the first line was completed through the Alps, connecting Italy and France with the Frejus Rail Tunnel. On 1 July 1878, the railway company, Simplon Railway Company (French: Compagnie du chemin de fer du Simplon, S) was created to promote the project; it merged in 1881 with the company Western Swiss Railways (French: Chemins de Fer de la Suisse Occidentale, SO) to create the Western Switzer...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=34232


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157284840
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 59 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1157284841
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Simplon Tunnel, Jungfraubahn, Petit Train de La Rhune, Gornergratbahn, Corcovado Rack Railway
  • Width: 229 mm


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