The Old Gotthard Tunnel Route - Driver's Eye View
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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…
Duration
1h 52m
Released
October 1, 2018
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Part ofThe London Underground Driver's Eye View
Includes Piccadilly Driver's Eye View (2003), Jubilee Driver's eye view (2001), Pendolino - Driver's Eye View (2019), Edinburgh & Glasgow Driver's eye view (2019), Bakerloo & City Driver's Eye View (2007), Victoria Line (Driver's eye view) (2009), Chiltern Mainline - Driver's Eye View (2018), HST West - Driver's Eye View (1986), The Berks & Hants Driver's eye view (2019), The Tyne Valley Line - Driver's Eye View (2018), The Far North (Driver's Eye View) (1991), Northern Line (City) - Driver's Eye View (1999), The Old Gotthard Tunnel Route - Driver's Eye View (2018), Isle of Wight - Driver's Eye View Documentary (2010), Metropolitan Main Line (1995), Northern Line (West End) - Driver's Eye View (1999), Central Line (2011), Central (1992), East London and District (2005), The North London Line (2006), 1066 DC (1988), Aberdeen to Inverness (2006), Connex Express (1998), East Coastway & Marshlink (), Enterprise - Dublin to Belfast (2006), Eurostar: Brussels to London St Pancras (2009), Eurostar: Paris to London Waterloo (2004), Exeter to Basingstoke (), Fawley Hill (2023), Ffestiniog & Conwy (1992), Hammersmith & Circle (2014), Heart of Wales (), Highland Main Line (2002), HST Far West (1990), HST Great West (1993), InterCity Norwich (1997), Kent Coast (2007), Learning to Steam (1993), Lickey Voyager (2005), Liverpool & Manchester (2010), Manchester to Cleethorpes (), Marseille to Paris (2005), Midland Mainline (2000), Norfolk Branches (), North Wales Coast (2016), Reading to Waterloo (2013), Settle and Carlisle (), SkyeTrain (1987), Thames Branches (), The Cambrian Coast: Machynlleth to Barmouth (1988), The Cumbrian Coast (1997), The Chiltern Bubble Cars (2017), The Down Fishguard (2002), The Flying Scotsman (2000), The Golden Valley - Swindon to Gloucester (2006), The Northern Lights (), The Royal Scot (2012), The West Highland (), The Wirral Line (), Transpenninexpress (2000), The Uckfield Thumper (2003), Welsh Highland Railway (2014), Welsh Marches (2012), and Wessex - Weymouth to Waterloo (1994).
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