This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more The new high-speed rail is intended to link Italian and French networks (Image: Getty) This incredible new £21.1 billion high-speed rail mega-project will connect the two European cities of Milan and Paris and dramatically reduce passenger travel times, allowing the land route to becomre more competitive with plane travel.
The Turin-Lyon high-speed railway, about 170 miles long in total, is intended to link Italian and French networks. The international section, the only part where construction has started, will cross the Alps through the Mon d’Ambin Base Tunnel between Susa Valley in Piedmont and Maurienne in Savoie. This 37.
5-mile tunnel will become the longest rail tunnel in the world, ahead of the 35.3-mile Gotthard Base Tunnel which runs through the Alps in Switzerland . function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.
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