APENNINES TUNNEL.
The world's longest double-track railway tunnel, eleven and one-third miles long, through the Etruscan Apennines, was opened in April by the King of Italy. The tunnel is part of a new sixty-one-milo stretch of electrified railway connecting. Bologna and Florence, on which a one-hour service is to bo carried out. Work was commenced on the tunnel about twenty years ago and it was again taken in hand by tlie Fascist authorities after long delays due to war and disturbances. Although the Apennines were pierced nearly four years ago, the opening of the tunnel was postponed, pending completion of the rest of the line. The whole cost of the new electrified line, including the tunnel, is approximately £20,000,000. In addition to this main tunnel, there are twenty-nine others, totalling a length of twenty-three miles, afld there are forty bridges. This new stretch of railway •reduces the time between Naples and Milan, I over tlio main route touching Rome and other I important from seventeen to IrCit Itours.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 136, 11 June 1934, Page 6
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168APENNINES TUNNEL. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 136, 11 June 1934, Page 6
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