{"id":8377,"date":"2024-09-27T01:29:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T01:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/rajoice-and-sing-at-semmering-3\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T01:29:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T01:29:02","slug":"rajoice-and-sing-at-semmering-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/rajoice-and-sing-at-semmering-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajoice and Sing at Semmering (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0Look! Tunnelling At Semmering<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a>Map of E59 road<\/span><\/p>\n What characterises the S6\/E59 on its Semmering trajectory is the preponderance of tunnels. Here is the section in question.<\/p>\n The S6\/E59 is to motorway standards through Austria, So we approach from the east on the L1468 …<\/p>\n … we curve round to enter a tunnel.<\/p>\n Now, oddly, the Streetview noddy car cannot really cope with tunnels – its camera just comes up with distorted orange fuzz; but we soon escape …<\/p>\n … and it is only a short distance before we are warned of the turn-off to the west of Semmering.<\/p>\n We plunge into our next tunnel. Another exit into a bright sunny day …<\/p>\n … and off we hop to turn back to Semmering. Only we appear to be going in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n We perform a sharp U turn over the top of the S6\/E59 and then peel off right …<\/p>\n … to hang a left for Semmering itself.<\/p>\n Note that several places are tagged “am” (= “on”) Semmering just to confuse us.<\/p>\n Clearly this motorway access to the town will have brought more motorists and may well have reduced the rail traffic, which ironically gave the place its focus all those years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n For fairly obvious reasons, pictures taken inside the tunnel lack impact, so fbb has used a webcam shot of the entrance to the twin bores at\u00a0Gloggnitz<\/span> – a place we have met before as a terminus of bus 343.<\/p>\n The second shot is near the western portal,\u00a0M\u00fcrzzuschlag<\/span>, where the new lines will join the old.<\/p>\n What fbb cannot quite grasp is why the new tunnel goes round two sides of a right angled triangle …<\/p><\/div>\n … rather than along the hypotenuse.<\/p><\/div>\n No!<\/p><\/div>\n Here is an appropriate map extract.<\/p>\n Between Wien and\u00a0M\u00fcrzzuschlag\u00a0you would travel by the fast “intercity” trains.<\/p><\/div>\n … waiting for its connecting passengers at\u00a0 M\u00fcrzzuschlag\u00a0station.<\/p>\n Or is it BlablaBus?<\/p><\/div>\n Yet another non official web site gave three journeys by BlaBlaCar …<\/p>\n … with cheap fares and super fast running times.<\/p><\/div>\n Yer what?<\/p>\n
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