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Airlander: World's longest aircraft in test flight
2017-07-05 21:30:49| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The world's longest aircraft completes its fifth test flight over Bedfordshire.
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World's longest rail tunnel opens
2016-06-01 12:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The world's longest and deepest rail tunnel has officially opened in Switzerland, after almost two decades of construction work. The 57km (35-mile) twin-bore Gotthard base tunnel will provide a high-speed rail link under the Swiss Alps between northern and southern Europe. Switzerland says it will revolutionise European freight transport. Goods currently carried on the route by a million lorries a year will go by train instead. The tunnel has overtaken Japan's 53.9km Seikan rail tunnel...
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World's longest rail tunnel to open
2016-06-01 06:01:15| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The world's longest and deepest rail tunnel is to be officially opened in Switzerland, after almost two decades of construction work.
Switzerland opens worlds longest railway tunnel
2016-06-01 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Switzerland has opened the worlds longest and deepest railway tunnel, Gotthard Base Tunnel, connecting Erstfeld (Uri) with Bodio (Ticino) and passing below Sedrun (Graubunden).
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Gotthard Base Tunnel: inside the worlds longest railway tunnel
2016-04-01 01:00:00| Railway Technology
At the heart of the New Rail Link through the Alps (NRLA) lies Switzerlands largest ever construction project, the Gotthard Base Tunnel. With extensive tests already underway across the length of the newly completed project, a look inside the tunnel
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