Simplon Tunnel Opened.
❖ (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association). (Received May 22, at 8.15 a.m.)' ROME, May 21. The King of Italy and M. Farrer, President of Switzerland, performed the opening ceremony at the Simplon tunnel. [The Simplon tunnel, the largest and deepest tunnel in the world, wa< completed in 1905, costing about two and a half millions sterling. It pierces the Alps between Switzerland and Italy, a length of 12* miles. A novel system of piercing was adopted, namely, two distinct parallel single track tunnels, 56 feet apart, and connected every 220 yards by transverse galleries. Thus one tunnel will ventilate the other. The work was commenced simultaneously at both ends in 1898.]
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8194, 22 May 1906, Page 5
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