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Old August 2nd 06, 09:33 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
ANDREW ROBERT BREEN ANDREW ROBERT BREEN is offline
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Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 1 Aug 2006 17:24:41 +0100, (Andrew Robert Breen)
wrote:

My point was that I can't think of a railway network which was started
from new much after 1914 which went for sub-standard gauge.

Bulgaria built a fair bit of 760mm gauge in the south of the country
after WWI.

Thailand converted (some?) lines from standard to metre, to match its
neighbours.

Other than the Shinkansen, have there been many totally new networks
built since 1914?

Shinkansen is the obvious example, with the AVE lines as another, more
recent case..

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