The Gotthard railway (German: Gotthardbahn; Italian: Ferrovia del Gottardo), named after the Saint-Gotthard Massif which it crosses, is the Swiss trans-alpine...
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The Gotthard Tunnel (German: Gotthardtunnel, Italian: Galleria del San Gottardo) is a 15-kilometre-long (9.3 mi) railway tunnel that forms the summit of...
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world's longest railway and deepest traffic tunnel and the first flat, low-level route through the Alps. It lies at the heart of the Gotthard axis and constitutes...
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The Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn is a narrow gauge railway line and a railway company (Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn AG, MGB) in Switzerland. The track width is...
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The Gotthard Pass or St. Gotthard Pass (Italian: Passo del San Gottardo; German: Gotthardpass) at 2,106 m (6,909 ft) is a mountain pass in the Alps traversing...
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Gotthard or Saint Gotthard (Italian: San Gottardo) may refer to: Gotthard of Hildesheim (960–1038), Roman Catholic saint Gotthard Heinrici (1886–1971)...
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NRLA (redirect from Alp Transit Gotthard railway)
(35 mi) Gotthard Base Tunnel, the 35-kilometre (22 mi) Lötschberg Base Tunnel, and the 15-kilometre (9.3 mi) Ceneri Base Tunnel. Swiss Federal Railways subsidiary...
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Rail transport in Switzerland (redirect from Swiss railway)
Since 2020, the SOB also operates the Treno Gottardo over the old Gotthard railway between Basel SBB/Zurich HB and Locarno, and since 2021 the Aare Linth...
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Transport in Switzerland (section Railways)
Europe from Southern Europe. Alpine railway routes began in 1882 with the Gotthard Railway with its central Gotthard Rail Tunnel, followed in 1906 by the...
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Alfred Escher (category Swiss railway pioneers)
Federal Institute of Technology, Credit Suisse, Swiss Life and the Gotthard Railway, Escher had an unmatched influence on Switzerland's political and economic...
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Andermatt. It has a station connecting with the Gotthard railway line of the Swiss Federal Railways. Initially it was electrified with 1,200 V DC. In...
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could run directly on to the Gotthard Railway. The building of direct approaches from Zurich and Lucerne to the Gotthard Railway, namely the (Zurich–)Thalwil–Zug...
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station is on the Gotthard railway and is also the terminus of the Lugano Città–Stazione funicular. The metre gauge Lugano–Ponte Tresa Railway (FLP) has a separate...
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in 1847. By 1860 railways connected western and northeastern Switzerland. The first Alpine railway to be opened was under the Gotthard Pass in 1882. A...
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two other being railway tunnels, the Gotthard Tunnel (1882) and the Gotthard Base Tunnel (2016). All three tunnels bypass the Gotthard Pass, an important...
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north–south mainline to Bologna, Rome, Naples and Salerno. The Simplon and Gotthard railway lines connect Milano Centrale to Basel and Geneva via Domodossola and...
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The first major north–south railway link across the Alps, the Gotthard Railway, opened in 1882. In 2016, the Gotthard Base Tunnel was inaugurated, which...
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located between two converging railway lines. The north-south Zug–Arth-Goldau line joins the main line of the east-west Gotthard line. Both lines have two...
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Airolo (section St Gotthard Tunnel Memorial)
the St. Gotthard Pass. Both the Gotthard rail tunnel, on the important Gotthard railway linking northern and southern Europe, and the Gotthard road tunnel...
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that would use the traditional route over the Gotthard railway. Under an agreement with Swiss Federal Railways, SOB would assume the operation of these services...
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The Gotthard Panorama Express is a tourist oriented boat and panoramic train line which connects Lucerne to Lugano, crossing the Swiss Alps from North...
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passes—Saint Gotthard to the south and the Klausen Pass to the east—and is the last station on the Gotthard railway before the line enters the Gotthard Base Tunnel...
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of several railway lines: the Gotthard railway, the line to Bern via Wolhusen, the line to Zug and Zürich and the metre-gauge Brünig railway. The first...
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Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2011. Gotthard morse key used by shortwave radio amateur HB9BFM. Retrieved 25 September...
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Federal Constitution of 1874, and opening political doors for the Gotthard Railway. Welti was the eldest of nine children. He was born to a distinguished...
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Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard railway, on the southern ramp up to the Gotthard Tunnel. Most trains on the Gotthard route now use the Gotthard Base Tunnel...
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Andermatt has been on the Gotthard route. The town is served by a Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB) owned and operated railway station. The station is connected...
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National Council. When he began to support the federal subsidies for the Gotthard railway, his image improved and he was seen less as a one-sided Ostalpenbahn...
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SBB-CFF-FFS Ae 8/14 (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1931)
class of electric locomotives built for Swiss Federal Railways to be used on the Gotthard railway. Only three prototype engines were built between 1931...
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