Poster: A snowHead
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The revolutionary 'Porta Alpina' project, which would locate a railway station 800m below a mountaintop in the Swiss Alps, has taken a step forward
More than half the funding necessary to secure the project has been approved by the Swiss parliament and local Graubunden canton, whose tourism will benefit. The underground station would be midway through the longest rail tunnel in the world - the Gotthard 'Base Tunnel'. The lift to carry passengers to the surface would also be the world's longest (deepest shaft).
The lift shaft is already being used for construction work on the tunnel, which will not be completed until 2015.
A neighbouring valley to the station, where the ski resort of Andermatt is located, may see major expansion of its facilities.
This report and diagram from Swiss Info.
Further information in this earlier article from The Telegraph.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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DG - you haven't mentioned if this would be an 'easy' or a 'technical' project yet?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Sherlock Chalets, I think being a railway there is a fairly good chance it will be "flatish"
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Amazing !!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Sherlock Chalets wrote: |
DG - you haven't mentioned if this would be an 'easy' or a 'technical' project yet? |
It's certainly a huge bore. I'll try to get a comment from Finlay Mickel to answer your specific question.
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what a project, really hope the station goes ahead!!!!!
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the shaft already exists, it was built at the same time as the tunnel was started, but its a service elevator, so only needs to be made wider and prettier. Will be quite cool though, and don't see why not!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I hope that it doesn't boost tourism tooo much. I've skied in Sedrun (which is near to the portaalpina) and Disentis and they're nice quiet Swiss family resorts with some interesting skiing and touring. And you can already get to them fairly easily by train from Chur or Andermatt on the furka/oberalp railway. I've noticed that as I get older progress doesn't seem to run in the right direction !!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Manda, just imagine when the lifts aren't working, 5000 steps to climb
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