<story><title>World&apos;s longest and deepest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36423250</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MagnumOpus</author><text>It cuts the Zürich-Milan journey time for passenger trains by about an hour (from 173 to 111 minutes) accelerating train trips from Germany&amp;#x2F;Switzerland to Italy significantly.</text></item><item><author>harryf</author><text>So how much time approximately will be saved vs the existing routes?</text></item><item><author>vasile</author><text>You can check a small animation[1] of the rail traffic from this upcoming weekend when the first passenger trains will pass through the tunnel&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;maps.vasile.ch&amp;#x2F;transit-sbb&amp;#x2F;?hms=08:40:00&amp;amp;day=2016-06-04&amp;amp;x=8.7744&amp;amp;y=46.61882&amp;amp;time_multiply=100&amp;amp;zoom=10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;maps.vasile.ch&amp;#x2F;transit-sbb&amp;#x2F;?hms=08:40:00&amp;amp;day=2016-06-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;cN3HKPp?v=2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;cN3HKPp?v=2&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>piquadrat</author><text>I heard numbers of 45 minutes less for Zurich-Milan. Maybe your number already includes the Ceneri Base Tunnel[1], to be opened in 2020?&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Ceneri_Base_Tunnel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Ceneri_Base_Tunnel&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>World&apos;s longest and deepest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36423250</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MagnumOpus</author><text>It cuts the Zürich-Milan journey time for passenger trains by about an hour (from 173 to 111 minutes) accelerating train trips from Germany&amp;#x2F;Switzerland to Italy significantly.</text></item><item><author>harryf</author><text>So how much time approximately will be saved vs the existing routes?</text></item><item><author>vasile</author><text>You can check a small animation[1] of the rail traffic from this upcoming weekend when the first passenger trains will pass through the tunnel&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;maps.vasile.ch&amp;#x2F;transit-sbb&amp;#x2F;?hms=08:40:00&amp;amp;day=2016-06-04&amp;amp;x=8.7744&amp;amp;y=46.61882&amp;amp;time_multiply=100&amp;amp;zoom=10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;maps.vasile.ch&amp;#x2F;transit-sbb&amp;#x2F;?hms=08:40:00&amp;amp;day=2016-06-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;cN3HKPp?v=2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;cN3HKPp?v=2&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalke</author><text>Could you double-check the Zürich-Milan journey time?&lt;p&gt;The article says &amp;quot;... the journey time for travellers between Zurich and Milan will be reduced by an hour to two hours and 40 minutes.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I cross-checked that with &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;switzerland-s-gotthard-train-tunnel-will-be-world-s-longest-n576096&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;switzerland-s-gotthard-tra...&lt;/a&gt; (&amp;quot;reducing the journey times between Zurich, Switzerland, and Milan, Italy, from just over four hours to two-and-a-half hours&amp;quot;) and &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;content.time.com&amp;#x2F;time&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;0,8599,2026369,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;content.time.com&amp;#x2F;time&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;0,8599,2026369...&lt;/a&gt; (&amp;quot;the journey time of three hours and 40 minutes from Zurich to Milan on the Cisalpino tilting train will be cut by an hour&amp;quot;.)&lt;p&gt;You can see these all give a time of over 150 minutes using the tunnel, not 111 minutes. They all agree it&amp;#x27;s a savings of about an hour.</text></comment>