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Notes and Gleanings Notes and gleanings Objekttyp: Group Zeitschrift: The Swiss observer : the journal of the Federation of Swiss Societies in the UK Band (Jahr): - (1931) Heft 495 PDF erstellt am: 06.10.2021 Nutzungsbedingungen Die ETH-Bibliothek ist Anbieterin der digitalisierten Zeitschriften. Sie besitzt keine Urheberrechte an den Inhalten der Zeitschriften. Die Rechte liegen in der Regel bei den Herausgebern. Die auf der Plattform e-periodica veröffentlichten Dokumente stehen für nicht-kommerzielle Zwecke in Lehre und Forschung sowie für die private Nutzung frei zur Verfügung. Einzelne Dateien oder Ausdrucke aus diesem Angebot können zusammen mit diesen Nutzungsbedingungen und den korrekten Herkunftsbezeichnungen weitergegeben werden. Das Veröffentlichen von Bildern in Print- und Online-Publikationen ist nur mit vorheriger Genehmigung der Rechteinhaber erlaubt. Die systematische Speicherung von Teilen des elektronischen Angebots auf anderen Servern bedarf ebenfalls des schriftlichen Einverständnisses der Rechteinhaber. Haftungsausschluss Alle Angaben erfolgen ohne Gewähr für Vollständigkeit oder Richtigkeit. Es wird keine Haftung übernommen für Schäden durch die Verwendung von Informationen aus diesem Online-Angebot oder durch das Fehlen von Informationen. Dies gilt auch für Inhalte Dritter, die über dieses Angebot zugänglich sind. Ein Dienst der ETH-Bibliothek ETH Zürich, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich, Schweiz, www.library.ethz.ch http://www.e-periodica.ch April 18, 1931. 2288 4 miles, thereYs'a- drop oM,868 ft. im altitude, Gothard Tunnel. But the Schollenen Railway NOTES AND GLEANINGS. which the railway requires 7f miles of track, now links the St. Gothard main line at By Kyburg. - - inclined continuously at 1 in 29, to overcome. Göschenen with the Furka-Oberalp Railway Entering Zuondra Tunnel, the. line curves at Andermatt, and by another service a round in a complete spiral, and after exit through coach is run in summer from f/te //ear# //te 6,'/ GRacter T/rroip/ft o/ A/ps crosses and recrosses the : valley, to enter a Göschenen to Zermatt, affording a new and ßorpress ; Railway Magazine spiral tunnel—Toua—immediately below, the popular scenic route from the Lake of Lucerne To our minds an " express " which takes first. Grossing the valley again, the track is resorts to the Rhone Valley. We are still in some 10J hours, to complete a journey of but carried through Rugnux spiral tunnel anil re- the Rhine watershed at Andermatt, as the 167^-miles might hardly seem deserving of any crosses for the second time ;,then, high up,above, Reuss is a tributary of the Rhine, but in the such title. But when it is mentioned that the but in full view of Berguh, it describes an next stage of the journey we have to cross into train in question starts at an altitude of 5,844 immense loop on the open mountainside before the Rhone watershed by way of the Furka Pass. ft., finishes its journey at 5,415 ft., and on its the train finally gets down abreast of the vil- The 314-mile stretch from Disentis to Gletsch, way is found at successive heights of 5,998, läge. Another spiral tunnel-has to be negoti- with Andermatt at the midway point, includes 1,995, 6,720, 4,740, 7,120 and 2,140 ft., the ated ere the train reaches Eilisur, 24 miles both jiasses, and is the most difficult part of reader will realise that this is a journey of from St. Moritz, and the junction for the loop, the route. The departure from Andermatt is altogether exceptional characteristics. It is which travels up the Landwasser Valley jtp at 1.50 p.m. furthermore, the longest through journey Davos, and reaches Chur by way of Klosters It is on the rack-and-pinion ascent from which can be made over metre-gauge railways and Landquart. Here we are 3,555 ft. above Hospenthal, a mile further on, to the Furka in Europe, and is over a single-track route for the sea. — that the traveller over—though prob- record passes the whole of its length. Yet another is. The main line now pierces a short tunnel, ably unaware of its existence—the most that this train links up in one journey the and is immediately launched on one of the most original engineering work on the whole watersheds of the Danube, the Rhine and the striking engineering features of the Whole journey. It is the Steffen bach bridge. The Rhone, with théir waters flowing respectively route—the viaduct over the Landwasser gorge. gorge which it spans is swept throughout the to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. This springs from a sheer precipice, into the wintertime—when, save for winter sport trains Three railways are concerned in the wall of which the first arch is built. With its from Andermatt up to Oberalp, the Furka- working of the "Glacier Express "—the height of 213 ft. and the radius of 328 ft. on Obérai]) Railway is closed to traffic between prosperous Rliaetian Railways of the Swiss which is has been built, this viaduct is a sen- Oberwald, in the Rhone Valley, and Sedrun, Canton of the Grisons ; the Furka-Oberalp sational structure indeed. Another remarkable near Disentis—by destructive avalanches, Railway ; and the Visp-Zermatt Railway, which engineering work is the bridge across the which iu two successive winters swept away in 1930 was extended for 54 miles up the Albula ravine at Soli s, also built in masonry the bridge which had been erected over it. At Rhone Valley—parallel to the Simplon main —which material has been employed wherever the next replacement the engineer- of the line line—to Brigue, at the mouth of the Simplon possible, in order that these great viaducts may determined to get the better of Nature. And Tunnel, where a junction was effected with harmonise with the scenery in which they are this lie lias done by designing a bridge of the Furka-Oberalp line. This has made placed—with 11 arches, of which the central unique type, which takes to pieces and packs possible the running of through coaches be- one, 138 ft. in span, carries the rails at a height away for the winter tween St. Moritz, iu the Engadine, and Zer- of 292 ft. above the rushing river. The track The photographs reproduced make clear matt, a distance of 163 miles, the train con- is then carried through the abysmal Schyn how this is done. The central span is hinged cerned being known as the " Glacier Express," ravine, from which it emerges at Thusis, cros- at one end, and when the time for dismantling even though its average speed works out at sing the Hinter Rhein by a steel bridge 263 ft. arrives, is unbolted at the opposite end and the modest figure of but 15 miles an hour. long just before entering the station. The swung round towards the diagonal support. Two other metre-gauge railways are also con- Rhein at this point flows out of an even more Each of the diagonals is also hinged at the nected with this narrow-gauge Swiss system— extraordinary gorge—the Via Mala—of which base, and the next operation is to lift both the Schollenen Railway, coming up from the sides, 1,600 ft. high, are in places so close of the side spans at their abutment ends and Göschenen, at the mouth of the St. Gothard together that they could both Ite touched by to draw them back on to the track at the sides Tunnel, to join the Furka-Oberalp Railway at the same pair of outspread arms. Thusis, 384 of the gorge. The diagonals are thus drawn Andermatt ; and the Bernina Railway, which miles from St. Moritz and 2,300 ft. above sea- round until they lie flat against the abutment climbs from the Italian frontier at Tirano over level, marks the end of the Albula Railway walls, against one of which, also, the central the Bernina Pass to link with the Rliaetian proper, which, apart from the Albula Tunnel span then hangs vertically. Thus the whole system at Pontresina and St. Moritz. By itself, was completed at the remarkable gorge is now left completely open, and the means of the latter it would be possible to run moderate cost of £9,400 per mile. A short run avalanches can sweep down in the winter a through coach from Tirano to Zermatt, a down the Rhine Valley now brings us to the time without causing a moment's concern. distance of almost exactly 200 miles, by metre confluence of the two sources of the Rhine— Before the resumption of service, in the late gauge tlirouglitout. Not only so ,but the water- ttie Hinter Rhein and the Vorder Rhein—at spring or early summer, the engineers descend shed of the .River Po, draining into the Reichenau-Tamins, 494 miles from St. Moritz, upon the bridge, and by aid of the cranes Adriatic,, would be added on the one journey at 10.40 a.m., and here we part company With erected permanently at both ends,' draw the to those of the Danube, Rhine and Rhone ; and the Gliur train, which con tinues down the spans out from their resting-places, bolt them an ascent from 1,405 ft. at Tirano to 7,400 ft. valley to the capital. together, and in a very short time the line is. on the Bernina Pass, to the dizzy alternations Meanwhile, the 'Disentis train, also again ready for traffic. Truly " necessity is of altitude already mentioned. restaurant-car equipped, has left Chur at 10.24 the mother of invention " We will assume that our journey by the a.m., and reaches Reichenau at 10.39 a.m., to In the Furka Tunnel, which is 7,120 ft.
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