World's longest rail tunnel to open
By Agence France-Presse in Geneva | China Daily | Updated: 2016-05-30 07:13
Officials from Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland will attend the event
When Swiss engineer Carl Eduard Gruner came up with the idea to build the world's longest rail tunnel under the Alps in 1947, he predicted the visionary project could be finished by the start of the 21st century.
He would turn out to be off by 16 years.
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