On 1st june, the world's longest railway tunnel was officially inaugurated, the 57 kilometer long Gotthard Base Tunnel through the Alps from Erstfeld to Bodio. This is the first train for politicians and officials, "VIP 2" from Zürich, which is leaving the east bore at 02.06 PM, bringing the guests from the north to Pollegio. In this train, below many others, traveled the leaders from Germany, Angela Merkel, from France, François Hollande, from Italy, Matteo Renzi, from Austria, Christian Kern and the Swiss federal councillars (Bundesräte) Johann Schneider-Ammann, Alain Berset, Guy Parmelin and Didier Burkhalter. The locomotive is Re 460 # 098 with special paint scheme "Gottardo 2016", which pulled 13 first and second class cars including cab car and a radio measuring car (for a optimized transfer of all data). On the right you can see the temporary platform, which was built for this event (and for the large public event on the weekend 4th/5th june).
