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Seventeen years of Swiss engineering equals the Gotthard base tunnel - now the world's largest rail tunnel. As Grace Pascoe reports, the tunnel aims to shorten travel times between northern and southern Europe.

Added on the 01/06/2016 18:10:57 - Copyright : Reuters EN

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