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November 19th 07, 10:28 AM
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After the Ball is over - Waterloo International
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article , (Clive.) wrote: In message , Colin Rosenstiel writes Most conveniently, what they do with some trains at the French- Spanish border: slide the wheels along the axles to fit the other gauge. Other solutions include mixed-gauge track, bogie changing, and (of course) having the passengers change trains. In the latter option it seems a bit pointless going to the expense of building a tunnel. According to my Jane's world railways the high speed line into Madrid is standard gauge, not the normal Spanish broad gauge. What's that got to do with a tunnel under the Irish Sea? It relates to how you deal with the problem of the UK being on standard gauge and Ireland being on broad gauge, which would be raised by the construction of such a tunnel - the analogy is that if you're going to build the tunnel, you might as well build the high-speed link on the Irish side to standard gauge, since it won't have normal Irish trains running on it anyway. tom -- Subvert the paradigm! |
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November 19th 07, 01:33 PM
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After the Ball is over - Waterloo International
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article , (Tom Anderson) wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Colin Rosenstiel wrote: In article , (Clive.) wrote: In message , Colin Rosenstiel writes Most conveniently, what they do with some trains at the French- Spanish border: slide the wheels along the axles to fit the other gauge. Other solutions include mixed-gauge track, bogie changing, and (of course) having the passengers change trains. In the latter option it seems a bit pointless going to the expense of building a tunnel. According to my Jane's world railways the high speed line into Madrid is standard gauge, not the normal Spanish broad gauge. What's that got to do with a tunnel under the Irish Sea? It relates to how you deal with the problem of the UK being on standard gauge and Ireland being on broad gauge, which would be raised by the construction of such a tunnel - the analogy is that if you're going to build the tunnel, you might as well build the high-speed link on the Irish side to standard gauge, since it won't have normal Irish trains running on it anyway. But no-one was talking about an Irish high speed link! If you're building a tunnel, you also need a high speed link at each end. It's implicit. On the Irish side, it would be a rather short high speed link (unless you wanted to run it on to Cork or something), but still, it has to have a gauge! tom -- [al]eatory, processes, superstition, tribal artifacts, worship, medicine, ''' |
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