'Standing room only' on first train through longest rail tunnel

Name: 'Standing room only' on first train through longest rail tunnel
Uploaded: 2016-06-01T16:47:40.000Z
Duration: 1 min 14 s
Description: The BBC's Imogen Foulkes takes the first train through the world's longest and deepest tunnel in Switzerland.

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The world's longest and deepest rail tunnel has opened in Switzerland.

Taking almost two decades to construct, the Gotthard tunnel will connect northern and southern Europe via a high-speed rail link under the Swiss Alps.

The BBC's Imogen Foulkes was on one of the first trains to go through the tunnel.

Europe

1 June 2016