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SEMMERING PASS

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 631 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEMMERING PASS  , the lowest of all the

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great passes across the
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Alps . The
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hospice, near the
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summit, was founded about 116o, but the pass was certainly used at a much earlier date . Between 1848 and 1854 a railway
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line (the first in any sense to
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cross the Alps) was constructed, but passes 282 ft. below the summit of the pass (3225 ft.) by a
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tunnel about 1 m.
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long . The line runs from Wiener
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Neustadt (3o2 M. from
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Vienna) past Bruck to
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Graz (139 M. from Vienna), the
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capital of
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Styria, whence it is 227 M. by
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rail to
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Trieste .

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