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The gallery of base of Saint Gottardo will be opened to the railway traffic with a year of advance payment regarding the programs
The commissioning is previewed in December 2016
August 23, 2011
The gallery of base of Saint Gottardo will be opened to the railway traffic in December 2016, with a year of advance payment regarding the programs. They have announced the Helvetic federal Office of the transports UFT, railway group Swiss SBB CFF FFS and its branch AlpTransit San Gottardo KNOWS (ATG), society that is charged of the construction of the alpine railway cross-sectional new on the axis of Saint Gottardo.
The advance payment of the commissioning to 2016 - they have emphasized UFT, SBB CFF FFS and ATG - will allow to ahead of schedule take advantage a year of the benefits of the flat railroad, line that will among other things allow to reduce the times of distance in the traffic fleeting between German Switzerland and the Ticino let alone Italy and to in transit increase to the productivity in the traffic goods offering an important contribution to the transfer of the traffic goods on the Alps from the road to the railroad.
SBB CFF FFS has specified that the valid offer of freight trains and passengers from December 2016 will be established two years before the commissioning during the usual procedure of definition of the official timetable of 2014 and that to that given it will be possible definitively to confirm the term of commissioning. In particular, on the base of the completion of the gallery of base of Ashes and the advance of the work on the drafts of access to north and south of Saint Gottardo it will be decided when the maximum number of seven trains to the hour and for currently previewed direction will be able circular in the gallery of base of Saint Gottardo.
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The gallery of base of Saint Gottardo will be opened to the railway traffic in December 2016, with a year of advance payment regarding the programs. They have announced the Helvetic federal Office of the transports UFT, railway group Swiss SBB CFF FFS and its branch AlpTransit San Gottardo KNOWS (ATG), society that is charged of the construction of the alpine railway cross-sectional new on the axis of Saint Gottardo.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
