On 16/03/2012 23:30, wrote:
In , (Jim
Chisholm) wrote:

On 16/03/2012 00:17, wrote:

"The scheme is currently the largest civil engineering project in
Europe."
Really? Bigger than the Gotthard Base Tunnel?
But that isn't in Europe...
It is in Switzerland

Which was in Europe last time I looked. It's even in Schengen.

Last time I was there they wouldn't even except Euros
{Isn't there some other country a bit like that!}
but I travelled, last year. from Zurich to Milan, in part just to look
at the works and the wonderful views, before it is all in tunnel

Jim

On 2012\03\17 14:21, Jim Chisholm wrote:

but I travelled, last year. from Zurich to Milan, in part just to look
at the works and the wonderful views, before it is all in tunnel

Is the present route being shut when the Gotthard Base Tunnel opens?

In article ,
(Basil Jet) wrote:

On 2012\03\17 14:21, Jim Chisholm wrote:

but I travelled, last year. from Zurich to Milan, in part just to
look
at the works and the wonderful views, before it is all in tunnel

Is the present route being shut when the Gotthard Base Tunnel opens?

I don't think so but I expect services will be reduced. They were cut
somewhat when the road tunnel opening caused the car ferry trains to cease.
Goeschenen (the North portal station) is a shadow of its former self.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:42:14 -0500,
wrote:
I don't think so but I expect services will be reduced.

Will probably be an hourly EMU like the Loetschbergbahn, I'd think.

Neil

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Neil Williams, Milton Keynes, UK

Neil Williams wrote on 17 March 2012 20:24:58 ...
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:42:14 -0500,
wrote:
I don't think so but I expect services will be reduced.

Will probably be an hourly EMU like the Loetschbergbahn, I'd think.

An hourly EMU service on Crossrail? Oh, you're talking about some
Alpine tunnel. Neil, if you must continue an OT sub-thread on u.t.l,
please either retain the context or change the subject.
--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

Neil Williams wrote on 17 March 2012 20:24:58 ...
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:42:14 -0500,
wrote:
I don't think so but I expect services will be reduced.

Will probably be an hourly EMU like the Loetschbergbahn, I'd think.

An hourly EMU service on Crossrail? Oh, you're talking about some
Alpine tunnel. Neil, if you must continue an OT sub-thread on u.t.l,
please either retain the context or change the subject.

I think I was the one who took us to the Alps. Sorry.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In article , (Jim
Chisholm) wrote:

On 16/03/2012 23:30, wrote:
In ,
(Jim Chisholm) wrote:

On 16/03/2012 00:17, wrote:

"The scheme is currently the largest civil engineering project in
Europe."
Really? Bigger than the Gotthard Base Tunnel?
But that isn't in Europe...
It is in Switzerland

Which was in Europe last time I looked. It's even in Schengen.

Last time I was there they wouldn't even except Euros
{Isn't there some other country a bit like that!}
but I travelled, last year. from Zurich to Milan, in part just to
look at the works and the wonderful views, before it is all in tunnel

The existing Gotthard tunnel is rather non-trivial in length.

--
Colin Rosenstiel