BERLIN'S PEDESTRIAN TUNNEL
Berlin is the first German city to take a leaf out of America's book and conduct a tunnel from a railway station to a hotel. Prom the Anhalter station, where the trains of the south, chiefly from Munich, Nuremberg, and Dresden, arrive, a subterranean paesage has been built to the Excelsior Hotel, patronised chiefly by business men. The hotel had to assume the entire cost of construction and experienced considerable difficulty besides te.obtaia a building permit from the city. The work of construction took eight months The tunnel is. 325 ft. long, 10ft high and 10ft. wide. • The tunnel is the talk of the town, people ate trying it'out with the same enthusiasm with which they tried out moving staircases in department stores when this American importation was first put into commission aome months ago,
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Shannon News, 27 July 1928, Page 2
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138BERLIN'S PEDESTRIAN TUNNEL Shannon News, 27 July 1928, Page 2
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