1999: kick-off for a mammoth Swiss project that was to last 17 years. The task was to build a new Alpine rail tunnel, the third in the Gotthard Pass region - and help bring northern and southern Europe closer together.
The work involved four huge machines, each weighing 3,000 tonnes, which began drilling in 2003. It took them seven years to blast through 73 different types of rock, displacing more than 28 million tonnes of rubble in the process. Nine workers are killed during the construction.
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