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Nella Galleria of base of Saint Gottardo is journeyed the first train
You start the trial runs. The tunnel will be inaugurated officially to half 2016
December 17, 2013
Yesterday the trial runs in the cane are begun the west of the Gallery of base of Saint Gottardo, that it is longer the railway tunnel of the world, and for the first time a train has covered the draft of 13 kilometers from Bodio to Faido to a speed of 160 kilometers per hour.
Until the end of june 2014, and for about 100 days, south of Bodio and the multifunctional station of Faido will be carried out of the tests along the draft of test between the portal whose scope is to attest that the entire system of gallery satisfies the conditions demanded: the complex interactions of the various outflows, systems and systems so as the railroads, the line of contact, the electric power supply, the command, the automatic protection of the trains and the communication of safety and mass in exercise will come heads. The test draft will be covered until the end of june 2014 with the maximum speeds until 220 km/h.
The gallery will be inaugurated officially to half 2016. "Between 900 days - Doris Leuthard has declared, Helvetic minister of the Transports, in occasion of the ceremony of start of the trial runs - we will celebrate the completion of the gallery and after this we will be able to begin with the long exercise of test all the Gallery of base of Saint Gottardo. The inauguration is previewed in the first week of june of 2016".
Renzo Simoni, president of the direction of AlpTransit San Gottardo, the society of the railway group Swiss SBB CFF FSS that takes care of the realization of the alpine railway cross-sectional new on the axis of Saint Gottardo, has explained that "the trial runs of the duration of six months are an important presupposed for being able at the beginning to deliver of june a 2016 to Confederation and FFS ready gallery for the use".
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Yesterday the trial runs in the cane are begun the west of the Gallery of base of Saint Gottardo, that it is longer the railway tunnel of the world, and for the first time a train has covered the draft of 13 kilometers from Bodio to Faido to a speed of 160 kilometers per hour.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
