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In the first two months of exercise in the gallery of base of Saint Gottardo they are journeyed 3,980 freight trains
The every day mean load of the convoys cargo has turned out pairs to about 41 000 tons
February 6, 2017
Railway group Helvetic SBB CFF FFS has made the point on the situation of the traffic in the new gallery of base of Saint Gottardo, the infrastructure that is inaugurated inaugurated 1°th june and that it has become operating 11th December with the introduction of the hour programming of the transits ( on 1° June and 12 Decembers 2016).
In the first 57 days of exercise, in the 57 kilometers of length of the railway tunnel, that it is longest to the world, they are journeyed altogether 2,816 fleeting trains and 3,980 freight trains. Relatively to according to type of convoys, up to now - in a seasonal period in which still the traces available are not taken advantage of all - they have crossed the base gallery an average of 100 trains cargo to the day that daily transported cargos pairs to about 41 000 tons, that is 3,600 trucks in less to the day on the roads.
SBB CFF FFS has remembered that the railway traffic goods on the axis north-south will reach the full ability to end 2020 with the mass in service of the gallery of base of Ashes and the corridor of four meters, when every day and in every direction they can circular until 260 freight trains from 750 meters.
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