Simplon
Americannoun
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a mountain pass in southern Switzerland, in the Lepontine Alps: crossed by a carriage road constructed 1800–06 on Napoleon's orders. 6,592 feet (2,010 meters) high.
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a railroad tunnel between Switzerland and Italy, northeast of the Simplon Pass. 12¼ miles (20 kilometers) long.
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In neighbouring Switzerland, the Simplon Pass into Italy and the Great St Bernard Tunnel were closed to traffic, while two cantons were badly affected.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025
A bridge I saw in Bern, also in stressed concrete, was strikingly beautiful and reminded me of the one at Simplon.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020
Shortly afterward, Billington published a book called “The Tower and the Bridge: The New Art of Structural Engineering,” with a picture of the Simplon bridge on the dust jacket.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020
The Palermo starters, who ran into the toughest driving of all, had to ferry across the Strait of Messina and take a railroad flatcar ride through the Simplon Tunnel.
From Time Magazine Archive
“At what time does the Simplon Orient leave?”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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