Saturday, June 20, 2009

Miners celebrate in front of the "gaby" drill after breaking through the east tube of the Gotthard railway tunnel in Switzerland to connect Erstfeld and Amsteg. Being built at a cost of almost 18 billion Swiss francs (£10 billion), it is scheduled to become the world’s longest tunnel at 60km (40 miles) when it is completed

Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters