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One hundred thousand trains have crossed the gallery of base of Saint Gottardo
In 2018 59% of the convoys circulated through the tunnel were goods
March 5, 2019
They are the one hundred thousand trains that up to now have crossed the gallery of base of Saint Gottardo, the new longer and deeper railway tunnel to the world that is inaugurated on June 1°, 2016 and has entered in exercise in December of the same year(on 1° June and 12 Decembers 2016). Currently in a week day the gallery is covered medium by 130-160 trains and the cent convoy, that it is journeyed today, was a SBB freight train International Cargo.
In 2018 59% of the trains circulated through the gallery of base of Saint Gottardo were goods, with tips of 120 freight trains to the day. FFS Cargo and SBB International Cargo represent little less of 83% of the journeying freight trains. After the closing of six months of the line on Luino, due to the previewed work of widening, and to the interruption of the services to Rastatt (Germany), from the 2018 traffic goods in the base gallery has recorded a remarkable resumption and an increase of the question.
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