World’s longest and deepest train tunnel opens in Switzerland

The world’s longest and deepest train tunnel has opened.

Switzerland’s Gothard tunnel is part of a high-speed rail network that will eventually stretch from the Italian city of Genoa in the south of Europe up through Germany as as far as the Dutch city of Rotterdam.

But the section penciled in for Germany’s Rhine valley hasn’t even passed the planning stage. It’s about twenty years behind schedule.

A point that was perhaps lost on the German chancellor.

“…this [tunnel] is of course a wo…
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