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19th December 2018 Vienna, Austria

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by Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

Awesome Austrian engineering: the Brenner Base Tunnel

Daylight fades as our vehicle enters the shaft.  Ahead, a vast tunnel plunges into the mountain, fluorescent wall lights stretching into the haze ahead.  Rumbling conveyor belts overhead bring debris from distant tunnel-boring machines towards the surface. We are visiting the Brenner Base Tunnel, at 64 kilometers (40 miles) the longest railway tunnel in the world.  […]

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