Railway to Bleanau Ffestiniog

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https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/spectacular-25-mile-tunnel-changed-29400684

Love the URL - it's 2.5 miles not 25 miles.

But a series fete of engineering, and a surprise and cause to rejoice that it survives.

It may not quite compare with the majesty of the Alpine tunnel that releases Bernina Express trains over the Landwasser Viaduct. But for the sheer beauty of its surrounding countryside, the Ffestiniog Tunnel comes pretty close.

Its construction, in the 1870s, was a triumph of Victorian endeavour and its survival has been just as epic. Running 2.5 miles underground from Blaenau Ffestiniog, in one of the most inhospitable parts of the Conwy Valley Line, its future has long been questioned but it’s still open and still defying the odds.

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Love the URL - it's 2.5 miles not 25 miles.

It's a real "don't believe everything you read" day ... and for long tunnels
From TimeOut

That’s right: you’ll soon be able to zip between Scandinavia and Central Europe via a brand-new underwater tunnel. The Fehmarnbelt link is currently under construction, but once built it will be the world’s longest immersed tunnel, stretching 18km across the Baltic Sea.

Currently, the only way to travel between the two countries is via a 45-minute ferry, but that journey time will be dramatically slashed once the Fehmarnbelt tunnel is complete. The tunnel will contain a two-lane motorway and a double-track railway so that both cars and trains can cross. Driving will take ten minutes while travelling via train will take only seven.

Odd that - in April, I took a Danish train from Odense in Denmark to Flensburg in Germany.