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- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel abstract "The Fréjus Rail Tunnel (also called Mont Cenis Tunnel) is a rail tunnel of 13.7 km (8.5 mi) length in the European Alps, carrying the Turin–Modane railway through Mount Cenis to an end-on connection with the Culoz–Modane railway and linking Bardonecchia in Italy to Modane in France. Its mean altitude is 1,123 m and it passes beneath the Pointe du Fréjus (2,932 m) and the Col de Fréjus (2,542 m).The initial gallery was 12.8 kilometres long, twice as much as the previously longest tunnel. Drilling started in August 1857 from Bardonecchia and in December 1857 from Modane. At construction start, both ends were in Piedmont-Sardinia, but this changed with the transfer of Savoy to France in 1860 (Treaty of Turin). On 26 December 1870, French and Italian workers shook hands as the two teams met halfway: the galleries were aligned to about 40 cm horizontally and 60 cm vertically. The tunnel opened for traffic on 17 September 1871, thus making it the oldest of the large tunnels through the Alps. The gallery was extended to its present length in 1881 with a new reinforced entrance on the French side.The construction, directed by Germain Sommeiller, was scheduled to take 25 years, but was completed in only 14 years thanks to technical innovations such as pneumatic drilling machines and electrical ignition of explosive charges. In the final construction years, the use of recently invented dynamite further accelerated the tunnel's completion. The next two Alpine tunnels were built with similar techniques: the Gotthard Rail Tunnel opened in 1882 and the Simplon Tunnel in 1906.The tunnel was enlarged in 2010 to allow transport of container trucks on piggy-back wagons, as part of the Autoroute Ferroviaire Alpine.The Fréjus tunnel remains an important link in the connection between Rome and Paris, via Turin and Chambéry. Following the development of car and truck transportation, the Fréjus Road Tunnel was built along the same path from 1974 to 1980. A future high-speed rail tunnel to improve transit capacity between France and Italy is being planned as part of the Turin–Lyon high-speed railway project.".
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- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Alpine_rolling_highway.
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- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Bardonecchia.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Category:1871_establishments_in_France.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Category:1871_establishments_in_Italy.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Category:France–Italy_border_crossings.
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- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Category:Savoie.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Category:Transport_in_Piedmont.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Category:Tunnels_completed_in_1871.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Category:Tunnels_in_the_Alps.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Chambéry.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Col_du_Fréjus.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Culoz–Modane_railway.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Duchy_of_Savoy.
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- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Germain_Sommeiller.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Gotthard_Tunnel.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Italy.
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- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Kingdom_of_Sardinia.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Le_Sappey.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Maginot_Line.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Modane.
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- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Ouvrage_Saint-Antoine.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Ouvrage_Saint-Gobain.
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- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Paris.
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- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Rome.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Simplon_Tunnel.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Treaty_of_Turin.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Turin.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Turin–Lyon_high-speed_railway.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink Turin–Modane_railway.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLink File:TrafFerrFrejus.JPG.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fejus tunnel".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "Frejus tunnel".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fréjus Rail Tunnel".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fréjus Tunnel".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fréjus rail tunnel".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fréjus tunnel".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fréjus".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "Mont Cenis Tunnel".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "Mont-Cenis rail tunnel".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "Mont-Cenis tunnel".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "Mount Fréjus".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "Rail".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "Tunnel".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "that of Mont Cenis".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel wikiPageWikiLinkText "tunnel".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel end "1882".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel next "Gotthard Rail Tunnel".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel previous "Standedge Tunnel".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel start "1871".
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- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel subject Category:1871_establishments_in_France.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel subject Category:1871_establishments_in_Italy.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel subject Category:France–Italy_border_crossings.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel subject Category:Railway_tunnels_in_France.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel subject Category:Railway_tunnels_in_Italy.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel subject Category:Savoie.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel subject Category:Transport_in_Piedmont.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel subject Category:Tunnels_completed_in_1871.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel subject Category:Tunnels_in_the_Alps.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel hypernym Tunnel.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel point "45.14083333333333 6.688888888888889".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel type RailwayLine.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel type RouteOfTransportation.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel type Diacritic.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel type Establishment.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel type Range.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel type Redirect.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel type SpatialThing.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel comment "The Fréjus Rail Tunnel (also called Mont Cenis Tunnel) is a rail tunnel of 13.7 km (8.5 mi) length in the European Alps, carrying the Turin–Modane railway through Mount Cenis to an end-on connection with the Culoz–Modane railway and linking Bardonecchia in Italy to Modane in France. Its mean altitude is 1,123 m and it passes beneath the Pointe du Fréjus (2,932 m) and the Col de Fréjus (2,542 m).The initial gallery was 12.8 kilometres long, twice as much as the previously longest tunnel.".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel label "Fréjus Rail Tunnel".
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel sameAs Q537800.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel sameAs Category:Fréjus_rail_tunnel.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel sameAs Frejustunnelen.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel sameAs Mont-Cenis-Tunnel.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel sameAs Tunnel_ferroviaire_du_Fréjus.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel sameAs Fréjus-alagút.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel sameAs Traforo_ferroviario_del_Frejus.
- Fréjus_Rail_Tunnel sameAs フレジュス鉄道トンネル.