Another Alpine Tunnel.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 165, 14 August 1886, Page 5

Another Alpine Tunnel.

The last of the great Alpine passes is doomed. "We have just driven," writes a correspondent, "acroes the Sinuplon. I need not say it was glorious weather', and we passed on the way a procession of car* riages carrying a scientific commission from Lausanne. The vandals had all their insignia of destruction with them, and were making observations for the projected tunnel from Brigue to leelle., ,|rhe innkeepers are already beginning to treat the project as &fait accgiripli, and at Iselle we were presented with a plan of the Simplon Railway, and told with much' enthusiasm that the tunndl would beat the St. Gothard hollow/ Our coachman was more of a political oconomist than we should have taken him for, and reflated philosophically " enough that whatever brought more y^sitdrs would in the long run' bring more custom to the veCCurini-, , * They will n.ot drive over the Simplon,— no, but they will want to drive somewhere else.' Apart from, the tunniel, the Simplon route, will, I,' imagine, present fewer, engineering difficulties than did the St. Gothard.", , „ ' j; „. "]'- " . ,

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