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The Old Gotthard Tunnel Route - Driver's Eye View (2018)
Documentary · 1h 52m
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…
Cast
Jonathan Kydd
Crew
- Writer
- Peter Middleton
- Producer
- Peter Middleton
Details
- Release date
- 2018-10-01
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Video 125