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Graeme Wall · December 20th 14, 08:43 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On 20/12/2014 06:34, Jeremy Double wrote:
Graeme Wall wrote:
On 19/12/2014 17:52, wrote:
On 19.12.14 16:58, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 19/12/2014 16:39, wrote:
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.

Also Wales.

How so in the case of Wales?

Tallyllyn, Festiniog, Snowdon Mountain, etc

You could do a similar thing with most countries in Europe, for example:

England: Romney Hythe & Dymchurch, Ravenglass and Eskdale etc

Germany: Harzer Schmalspurbahn, several railways in Saxony, Rasender
Roland, Molli etc.

Switzerland: RhB, MGB, MOB, ZB etc

I could continue...

The RH&DR doesn't count as it was always a "toy" railway, the others
were all working railways in the past.

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Graeme Wall
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