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	Gotthard Rail Tunnel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Gotthard Tunnel, a 15 km long railway tunnel, is the summit of the Gotthardbahn and connects Göschenen with Airolo through the Gotthard massif.
		The tunnel was finally opened for traffic in 1882, operated by the private railway company Gotthardbahn which ran from Lucerne to Chiasso at the Italian border.
		Shortly after, in 1920, the first electric trains ran through the Gotthard Tunnel; However, the voltage had to be reduced from the desired 15 kV to 7.5 kV, because the grime on the insulators from the then still used steam engines caused the high voltage to spark over.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gotthard_Rail_Tunnel (422 words)

	Tunnel - LoveToKnow 1911
		Tunnelling on a large scale was also carried on at the rock temples of Nubia and of India, and the architectural features of the entrances to some of these temples might be studied with advantage by the designers of modern tunnel fronts.
		As instances of ancient tunnels through soft ground and requiring masonry arching, reference may be made to the vaulted drain under the south-east palace of Nimrod and to the brick arched tunnel, 12 ft. high and 15 ft. wide, under the Euphrates.
		This tunnel is one of fiftytwo single-line tunnels, with a gradient of I in 40, on the main line between Florence and Bologna, built by Thomas Brassey.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Tunnel (8015 words)

	tunnel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Tunnels may be ventilated by shafts leading to the surface or by exhaust fans at the ends.
		River-crossing tunnels are also constructed by dredging a trench in the riverbed and then lowering prefabricated tunnel sections through the water into the trench, where they are connected to each other.
		The Channel Tunnel (Chunnel) under the English Channel is much longer, at 31 mi (50 km), and the Seikan Tunnel in Japan, the world’s deepest underwater tunnel, is also the longest railroad tunnel at 33.5 mi (53.6 km).
	www.bartleby.com /65/tu/tunnel.html (904 words)

	Laerdal Tunnel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The surface of the tunnel is reinforced and secured by a total of 200.000 rock bolts (7-8 bolts per metre) and 45.000 cubic metres of reinforced shotcrete.
		To make sure that the tunnel section were to meet, with the smallest possible margin of error more than 10 kilometres into the rock and 1000 metres under the mountain, it was important that the drilling and blasting work were carried out with great precision.
		For city tunnels, where pollution problems are primarily related for the city air quality in general, and more specifically to the contents of dust, NO and VOC, this air cleaning technology can advantageously be used to clean the polluted ventilation air from the tunnel before discharge into the urban environment.
	www.engineering.com /content/ContentDisplay?contentId=41007007 (2453 words)

	St Gotthard Pass - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		St Gotthard Pass, important transport route through the St Gotthard mountains in the Lepontine Alps, south-central Switzerland.
		Previously, the St Gotthard Pass Tunnel (1980), in...
		There are three Alpine road tunnels, including the 16.32-km (10.14-mi) St Gotthard Pass tunnel, which until 2000 was the longest road tunnel in the...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /St_Gotthard_Pass.html (115 words)

	St Gotthard - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		St Gotthard, mountain group, south central Switzerland, in the Lepontine Alps, in the cantons of Valais, Uri, Ticino, and Graubünden.
		This report on the opening of the St Gotthard road tunnel appeared in The Times on September 6, 1980.
		The road tunnel through the St Gotthard Pass...
	au.encarta.msn.com /St_Gotthard.html (115 words)

	Tunnel blaze questions transport of combustible loads - 25 October 2001 - New Scientist
		A fatal road tunnel fire still blazing in the Alps should prompt a rethink in the way that combustible loads are transported in future, according to fire protection experts.
		This latest collision was fortunate to occur just one mile from the tunnel's exit, allowing a large number of the estimated 1500 people in the tunnel to escape.
		The tunnel also features ventilation shafts to help expel smoke, a safety tunnel for pedestrian exit and warning barriers to prevent cars from entering the tunnel after the blaze started.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn1480 (601 words)

	St. Gotthard - Trip to Switzerland - MCPics
		Gotthard The St. Gotthard Pass is a vital North-South link through the Alps Lucerne The drive to Lucerne by train.
		It is crossed by the St. Gotthard Road (built 1820-30).
		The Saint Gotthard Road Tunnel was opened in 1980; 10 mi (17 km) long and with a capacity of 1,500 vehicles per hour, it has greatly improved road transportation between Switzerland and Italy.
	www.mcuniverse.com /album24_5_sg.htm (797 words)

	SUPERSEAL Tunnel Drainage- High flow drainage solutions
		Tunnel Drainage is a long lasting separating layer that controls moisture and heavy ground water flow.
		SUPERSEAL Tunnel Drainage is made out of a 40 or optional 50-mil polyethylene membrane with ¾" (20mm) high dimples, with approximately 400 dimples per m² to ensure maximum drainage and pressure equalizing ventilation under even the most difficult of conditions.
		Tunnel Drainage can be placed dimples facing up to secure soils or gravel beds in situations where there is a high level of mud or undesirable soils.
	superseal.ca /tunnel_drainage.html (369 words)

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		Another parameter indicating why the tunnel has to be of category E is the great sensibility of the surrounding population regarding the St. Gotthard tunnel.
		In case of explosion in a tunnel the pressure will be canalized with the consequence that the shock wave will be faster, more destructive and reach longer distances as in case of explosion outside a tunnel.
		Because of the confinement, for toxic substances escaping in a tunnel the concentration of the toxic vapors remains higher in longer distances as outside.
	www.unece.org /trans/doc/2005/wp15/TRANS-WP15-79-inf29e.doc (980 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Light at the end of the tunnel
		This is particularly prevalent in long tunnels such as the St Gotthard (16.9km) and the Mont Blanc (11.6km), where monotony begins to play a role.
		The tunnel is on the main Bergen-Oslo road but carries only a fraction of the traffic of the big Alpine tunnels.
		The tunnel is also fitted with a state-of-the-art ventilation system and there are 15 special signal boosters which allow mobile phones to work inside it.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1945581.stm (892 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Swiss tunnel re-opens after fire
		The tunnel now has strict new safety measures in place, but some local people are unhappy with the decision to re-open the route.
		Since the Mont Blanc tunnel was closed in 1999 following another fire there, the St Gotthard road has been used as the major transport link across the Alps and its closure has caused traffic chaos across Europe.
		There have been calls for a second tube to be added to the St Gotthard tunnel to relieve pressure on the route, but the Swiss Government insists that the better solution is to transfer all trans-Alpine road freight to rail.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1723949.stm (229 words)

	IRU - Press release : IRU Declaration on St. Gotthard Tunnel closure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In particular, it provides evidence that all main road tunnels with heavy traffic must be equipped with two separate tubes, splitting the traffic flows and reducing the risk of accident and its consequences, limiting casualties and damage if an accident does occur, and greatly facilitating the task of the emergency services.
		The IRU urges that all necessary measures be taken to equip all tunnels with the best possible safety devices available in terms of modern construction, monitoring and everyday operating techniques, in order to eliminate risks for all road users, be they commercial or private.
		It also requests that the French and Italian Authorities re-open the Mont-Blanc Tunnel to commercial traffic as soon as possible and that significant improvement be made in the capacity and quality of railway services, notably in respect of all types of combined road/rail transport, together with measures to encourage the maximum use of this option.
	www.iru.org /roadnews/Entries/627.E.html (373 words)

	CNN.com - Travel - Norway opens world's longest road tunnel - November 27, 2000
		Cutting under a snow-capped mountain range, the Laerdal tunnel is a key stretch on a faster road linking Oslo and the western port of Bergen, avoiding high mountain passes and ferry routes across fjords.
		It beats the 10.6-mile (17-kilometer) St. Gotthard tunnel in Switzerland to become the planet's longest road tunnel.
		The tunnel has 48 sites for vehicles to pull off the road in an emergency, 15 locations to turn a vehicle around and fire extinguishers every 125 yards (114 meters).
	archives.cnn.com /2000/TRAVEL/NEWS/11/27/norway.tunnel.reut (525 words)

	Runehamar Fire Tests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Especially semi-trailer fires similar to the size of the recent fires in Mont Blanc Tunnel (France/Italy) and St Gotthard Tunnel (Switzerland) were used.
		The tunnel is a part of a road system that was partly (100 m) destroyed in a landslide.
		These recent tunnel fires have prompted the European Union (EU) to fund both a tunnel network (FIT-Fires in Tunnels) and a large research projects dealing with the question of methods to upgrade the fire safety in tunnels (UPTUN-Cost-effective, sustainable and innovative Upgrading Methods for fire Safety in existing Tunnels and DART-Durable and Reliable Tunnel Structures.
	www.sp.se /fire/Eng/Protection/Runehamar_tests.htm (799 words)

	6 - THE St GOTTHARD BASE TUNNEL
		The 57 km twin tunnels with a distance of 40 m and diameters of about 9m will be connected by cross passages at every 325m.
		In the north, the Aar massif has to be drilled, in the centre the Gotthard massif and in the south the penninic gneiss zone.
		Between the Aar and Gotthard massifs the Tavetsch and Urseren-Garvera zone are to be crossed.
	www.ita-aites.org /cms/370.html (389 words)

	Blaze in Swiss tunnel kills 10 -DAWN - International; October 25, 2001
		As thick fl smoke billowed out of the southern exit and tunnel ventilation shafts, local residents were warned to stay indoors and to close their windows in case the smoke was toxic.
		The tunnel has been closed since but is due to reopen before the end of the year despite opposition from local inhabitants.
		The St. Gotthard tunnel is generally rated as safe according to Swiss authorities, but has no central barrier dividing its two lanes of traffic heading in opposite directions.
	www.dawn.com /2001/10/25/int1.htm (639 words)

	Initiativa delle Alpi >> Storia
		On the Gotthard Pass, the Alpine Initiative and Leventina Vivibile demonstrate against the Avanti Initiative and doubling the capacity of the St. Gotthard road tunnel.
		On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the St Gotthard road tunnel, the Alpine Initiative dresses the devil’s stone near the motorway in red, erects a commemorative sculpture by Fredy Odermatt and holds a demonstration party to draw people’s attention to the problem of increasing transit traffic.
		Shortly after the catastrophes in the Mont Blanc and Tauern tunnels, the Alpine Initiative asks for piggyback transport of lorries on the St. Gotthard railway between Göschenen and Airolo to reduce the risk of accidents in the St. Gotthard road tunnel.
	www.alpeninitiative.ch /e/Geschichte-Inhalt.asp (1983 words)

	Swiss give thumbs down to second Gotthard road tunnel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Gotthard is Switzerlands main north-south axis through the Alps.
		Swiss voters also have fresh in their minds the fierce fire in the St Gotthard tunnel that killed 11 people in October 2001.
		The tunnel was closed for eight weeks afterwards.
	www.terradaily.com /2004/040208191846.pidp4hdx.html (272 words)

	CNN.com - Travel - Norway to open world's longest road tunnel - November 24, 2000
		The Laerdal tunnel, which cost $114 million, will create a ferry-free route avoiding high mountain passes between Oslo and Norway's second largest city, the western port of Bergen.
		The tunnel also has giant fans sucking fresh air in from both ends and blowing it out from a tunnel cut into a side valley -- the only available hole in a mountain range whose peaks are up to 4,593 feet (1,400 meters) above the tunnel.
		Trying to stop people from falling asleep, the tunnel gently curves and car tires buzz loudly on bumps when crossing the central line or the edge of the tunnel.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/TRAVEL/NEWS/11/24/norway.tunnel.reut (909 words)

	France may make traffic one-way in tunnels -DAWN - International; October 27, 2001
		PARIS, Oct 26: French Transport Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot raised the possibility on Friday of converting Alpine tunnels to one-way traffic to reduce the risk of deadly accidents such as the ones in Mont Blanc and St. Gotthard.
		Noting the fact that the disaster in the St. Gotthard tunnel in Switzerland was caused by a collision between two trucks heading in opposite directions, the minister said one answer could be to make sure tunnels only contained one-way traffic.
		The minister was speaking in the aftermath of the deadly inferno in the St. Gotthard tunnel in the Swiss Alps in which at least 11 people were killed.
	www.dawn.com /2001/10/27/int12.htm (342 words)

	News Briefs
		Long alpine tunnels are crucial economic corridors from north to south in Europe, but accidents are leading officials to question their safety.
		Heavily damaged, the tunnel was supposed to reopen by Christmas, but authorities said the new accident may thwart those plans.
		The St. Gotthard catastrophe began at 9:30 a.m.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V121/N54/Shorts_2_54.54w.html (889 words)

	Marlies' Creative Universe: Zurich - Locarno
		Later I found out that after the bad accident last year, 2001, in the tunnel with a major fire, trucks were no longer allowed to pass each other.
		The tunnel entrance at Göschenen is at 1106 m above sea level The tunnel is 16.9 km long and has 2 lanes.
		The exit of the tunnel at Airolo is a 1141 m above sea level The tunnel itself climbs for about 8 km and then goes downhill for the rest.
	www.mcuniverse.com /05/print.533.98.html (365 words)

	Rick Steves' Europe: Driving Europe Crazy: 2001
		The St. Gotthard Tunnel in Switzerland (on the main route between Frankfurt, Germany and Milan, Italy) is reopening the afternoon of Dec. 21 per the 12/20 International Herald Tribune (http://www.iht.com/articles/42447.html).
		Latest from cnn.com (click on the "Europe" heading) is that the St. Gotthard tunnel, the main highway between Switzerland and Italy, may be re-opened to limited traffic sometime in December.
		The only remaining tunnel is the St. Bernard and it just had a crash, too, although not as serious.
	www.ricksteves.com /graffiti/archives/drive_01.htm (21157 words)

	Griesinger's disease II (www.whonamedit.com)
		The St. Gotthard Road Tunnel, 16 kilometres, was opened in 1980.
		The St. Gotthard pass is a mountain pass in the Lepontine Alps of southern Switzerland,.
		The name is believed to be derived from a hospice built at the summit by the dukes of Bavaria in honour of St. Godehard, or Gotthard, an 11th-century bishop of Hildesheim (now in Germany).
	www.whonamedit.com /synd.cfm/1366.html (213 words)

	Sustenpass
		The latter is just off the main route from Zürich and Schwyz to Andermatt and the St. Gotthard Tunnel.
		Allow time for the short hike to the top of the pass, which you can reach from the parking lot near the west end of the summit tunnel that links the cantons of Bern and Uri.
		One popular variation is a "three-pass tour," a circular trip of the Susten, Furka, and Grimsel Passes from Meiringen.
	europeforvisitors.com /switzaustria/articles/sustenpass_road.htm (393 words)

	Bellinzona Adventure Travel - Bellinzona Travel Guide
		The opening of the St. Gotthard Tunnel made this once-remote Swiss town on Italy's side of the Alps very accessible.
		Bellinzona is known for the beauty of its old city and the nearby hills, as well as for the hospitality of its inhabitants.
		Records of the town date from A.D. As the strategic key to the passes of St. Gotthard, San Bernardino, and Lucomagno, Bellinzona loomed large in the history of Lombardy.
	away.com /destination-overview/Bellinzona-320786-travel-guide.html (390 words)

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