Books on the history, railway lines, locomotives and other rolling stock of the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn.
Loks der Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn - seit 2003 (Typenkompass)
The Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB) is one of the best known and most spectacular narrow gauge railways in Switzerland. No wonder, because the world-famous Glacier Express runs along its route from St. Moritz to Zermatt. It has a track width of 1, 000 mm. The ten-year-old railway company was formed in early summer 2003 through the merger of the Brig-Visp-Zermatt-Bahn (BVZ) and the Furka-Oberalp-Bahn (FO). This Typenkompass presents all the locomotives and railcars of the MGB and the Gornergratbahn that it operates.
Each type is presented with a photo, a historical description and technical data.
The Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGBahn) is one of the most famous and spectacular narrow-gauge railways in Switzerland. No wonder, since the legendary Glacier Express runs along its route. The Gornergrat Railway, which offers a direct connection to the Matterhorn in Zermatt, is no less impressive. The famous Riffelalp tram branches off from it.
Hans-Bernhard Schönborn reports on the railways mentioned in this volume. We must not forget the Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstrecke (DFB), which took over the pass route along the Rhone Glacier after the opening of the Furka Base Tunnel.
This book (reprint), published a few years after the completion of the Gotthard Railway, describes the construction and financing of the Gotthard Railway. The author then goes on to discuss freight traffic in the first years and examines the consequences of the Gotthard Railway with regard to traffic across the Alps.
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Author:
Heinrich Rüegg
Details:
132 pages, 21 x 15 x 0.8 cm / 8.25 x 5.9 x 0.31 in, paperback
Die Gotthardbahn - immer wegweisend und zukunftsorientiert
Let this rich illustrated book take you on a journey to the Gotthard! Numerous images and documents, some of which are published here for the first time, present the two most important structures of a north-south connection in Europe: the Gotthard Railway Base Tunnel from 1882, which is 15 kilometers long, and the new Base Tunnel from 2016 (or Ceneri, opening in 2020), which is the longest railway tunnel in the world at 57 kilometers.
The latter is not only "a masterpiece of precision and technology, " wrote the Neue Luzerner Zeitung, but also "a masterpiece of direct democracy." The Swiss electorate gave the green light to this billion-dollar project twice, in 1992 and 1998.
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