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[email protected] · December 19th 14, 04:39 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On 19.12.14 11:12, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 19/12/2014 09:10, d wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:26:00 +0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:55:26 +0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
Pity the trains won't be sized to match them. RER style double
decker
trains
would be perfect for this route. Given how many billions its cost
for the
tunnels, I can't see why raising a few bridges on the
pre-existing lines
would
be such a big deal.

Perhaps it's planning for the future?

The running tunnels are sized for normal UK-gauge trains. Obviously
the
station tunnels are larger.

From the cross sections I've seen the running tunnels are considerably
larger than normal UK tunnels.

Perhaps to allow for a walkway, as with other modern tunnels? I don't
think they're large enough for UIC gauge.

Probably moot anyway since the usual lack of foresight means the
trains are
going to be the standard tiny UK gauge

UK gauge is identical to most of the continent.

With the exception of the Iberian Peninsula, Ireland, Finland, Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, as well as parts of Italy,
France, Poland, Slovakia and Bulgaria.