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Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge

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461 points axelfontaine | 1 comments | 20 May 25 07:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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worldsayshi ◴[20 May 25 08:18 UTC] No.44039094[source]▶
I wonder if there will be measures for backwards compatibility in the transition period. Like having dual track widths.
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1. M95D ◴[20 May 25 09:19 UTC] No.44039503[source]▶
I very much doubt it. Change to dual-gauge requires replacing the sleepers, and if they do the very hard work of replacing the sleepers, then why keep broad gauge?

Maybe they would choose to downgrade a single track where there's two, and half of each station's lines, but that would make it very difficult to schedule trains in both directions on a single track. So, they're probably not going to do that either.