UNDER APENNINES
GREAT RAILWAY TUNNEL
WOEK OF BOEING COMPLETED
(Received 6th December, 2 p.m.)
ROME, sth December. The boring of the longest doubletrack tunnel in the world was completed to-day. It penetrates the Apennines between Bologna and Florence, and cost five millions, largely owing to the extraordinary hardness of the rock. Sixty-nine lives were lost in the process of the work, which reduces the journey from two and a half hours to an hour. The total cost of the railway is nine millions sterling.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 137, 6 December 1929, Page 12
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84UNDER APENNINES Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 137, 6 December 1929, Page 12
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