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The Old Gotthard Tunnel Route - Driver's Eye View (2018)

ALL 10/01/2018 (en) Documentary 112 Min
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    10/01/2018
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    Video 125
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  • Original title
    The Old Gotthard Tunnel Route - Driver's Eye View
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    en
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Overview

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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  4. Peter Middleton

    Producer



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The Old Gotthard Tunnel Route - Driver's Eye View (2018) 112 Min

ALL 10/01/2018 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 10/01/2018
  • Production
    Video 125
  • Original title The Old Gotthard Tunnel Route - Driver's Eye View
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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…

  1. Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Peter Middleton

    Producer



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