A Continental engineering paper gives an account of a novel scheme for a railway for Mont Blanc. Instead of BBcending the mountain in the usual way, the line is to penetrate into the mountain by means of a tunnel four and abal£ miles long, terminating exactly under the highest point. Here a vertical shaft will be constructed, reaching to tho summit, and the travellers will be carried up by lifts. The depth of this shaft will ba about a mile and three-quarters, •and the ascent to the observatory no> being ! built .on Mont Blano would be rendered easy at all timeßt
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5258, 14 May 1895, Page 3
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