NEW EUROPEAN RAILWAY.
A NEW EAILWAY. A new railway line directly connecting the Riviera with Turin, Milan, the Plain of Lombardy, and Central Europe was opened on Tuesday, October 30th. The new line, which will run from Nice on the French Riviera coast to the Italian town of Coni, pierces the French Maritime Alps the great mountain barrier dividing France and -Italy, and eventually joins up with, the great railway lines which pass through the famous .Simplon and St. Gothard tunnels.
From Nice to the Italian frontier tht lii\e is a single track of some thirty miles length. It departs from the existing line, which runs along the coast, at St. Koch, then passes through the Paillon Valley to L'Escarene, and then by way of the Braus Pass reaches the magnilieient Bevra-Sospel Valley. Then, by way,of the Grazian tunnel, the line joins l the valley of the River Roya. A new international station is . being built at Breil, which is in French territory. The Italians have already a line from Coni to Ventimiglia. ' " The great work just 'completed has a ,very interesting history, which in some respects resembles the project for a Channel tunnel between France and England. The earliest proposal to join France and Italy by penetrating the Alpine barrier came from Italy in the 'fifties of last century. Nothing came of it. In 1880, however, a new project for joining Nice and ,Coni was examined by a French Government commission, which turned the idea down, declaring that the proposed communication would imperil the national defences of France; This decision shelved I the project for many years. In the late nineties, however, an active campaign in favour of the scheme was started in France. In 1903 the King of Italy visited Paris and discussed the matter With the President. An agree- ' juent was concluded some time later.
The work of building the line from Nice to Coni, which included many very considerable engineering feats, was interrupted by the war and not resumed until 1918. The new line is expected to bring further prosperity to hotel and restaurant owners on the Riviera by the attraction of large numbers of tourists from Germany, Austria, and Central Europe generally. The French and Italian railway companies are about to. put into operation a service of four expresses* daily from" Nice to. Turin, and a service to Lausanne.
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Shannon News, 15 January 1929, Page 1
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394NEW EUROPEAN RAILWAY. Shannon News, 15 January 1929, Page 1
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