Amazing Engineering! Longest Rail Tunnel in the World Opens

another easy route for the migrants to take ,and i can't imagine what the first train fire will cause ,that seems to happen fairly reguarly as well
 
the black fox said:
another easy route for the migrants to take ,and i can't imagine what the first train fire will cause ,that seems to happen fairly reguarly as well
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Does it? Where?
 
the black fox said:
another easy route for the migrants to take ,and i can't imagine what the first train fire will cause ,that seems to happen fairly reguarly as well
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but yes very impressive feat of engineering.

i wonder how they did it over 20 years, as surely technology advances so quickly that wouldn't they have to go back and redo bits?
 
Impressive? no doubt about that whatsoever, but they also said that it would put a million lorries off the roads per year, as they use it for freight.
That does seem rather a lot TBH, but if its true, that's a hell of a lot of people out of work ;)
 
its impressive and they aim to take a million trucks a year of the road
 
Mr Bump said:
its impressive and they aim to take a million trucks a year of the road
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Is that another example of lax reporting i.e. do they actually mean a million truck journeys???
 
Box Brownie said:
Is that another example of lax reporting i.e. do they actually mean a million truck journeys???
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I would guess so, or as I said above, that's a million drivers out of work ;)
 
A million trucks off the road works for me :D
 
Box Brownie said:
Is that another example of lax reporting i.e. do they actually mean a million truck journeys???
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Cobra said:
I would guess so, or as I said above, that's a million drivers out of work ;)
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It's a million truck journeys per year.

The new tunnel will handle about 260 freight trains per day. Each train can be up to 750m long. That means the theoretical capacity in a year is 365 x 260 x 750m of train length, which is 71 million metres of train length. Of course they won't utilise all that capacity, and some of it is traffic that is already on the rails. But it's quite easy to envisage that a million truck loads, say 10-15 million metres of train length, could be taken off the roads each year.

It doesn't necessarily mean a loss of truck driving jobs, either. Yes there will be less trucks being driven across Switzerland. But it will make the pan-European freight network more efficient, so there will be more demand for freight haulage in Italy and in Germany / Holland, at the two ends of the Goathland route.
 
StewartR said:
It doesn't necessarily mean a loss of truck driving jobs, either. Yes there will be less trucks being driven across Switzerland.
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Another way of looking at it of course, instead of 1 driver doing a long haul, he will be doing several journeys to and from the rail / freight depot, after all it has to get there somehow.

ie When I was doing this for a living I could do Durham and back in a night.
or 4 journeys into DIRFT
 
Cobra said:
Another way of looking at it of course, instead of 1 driver doing a long haul, he will be doing several journeys to and from the rail / freight depot, after all it has to get there somehow.
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Exactly.
 
The short journeys increase in number while the longer one decrease, its OK if you are not on a "short journey" route I guess :D
 
I would imagine the biggest difference is all the pollution those trucks created hauling stuff up and down the mountains, the train is on a flat route and probably runs on leccy from cow farts.
 
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