←back to thread

461 points axelfontaine | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.212s | source
Show context
thih9 ◴[] No.44039085[source]
> will cost billions of euros, affect more than 9,200 km of track, and take decades

How is a change like this going to be implemented? E.g. are they going to mainly update some tracks everywhere (and have two systems running in parallel), or all tracks in selected areas (and have passengers change), or something else?

Was there a comparable large scale rail infrastructure change in some other country?

replies(13): >>44039096 #>>44039107 #>>44039111 #>>44039129 #>>44039186 #>>44039196 #>>44039199 #>>44039365 #>>44039376 #>>44039651 #>>44039668 #>>44039843 #>>44040066 #
rsynnott ◴[] No.44039651[source]
> Was there a comparable large scale rail infrastructure change in some other country?

There were a number of gauge changes, but they were usually quite early on, when the infra was less critical and you could get away with closing lines for months. I'm not sure that there's a real 20th century example, beyond standard gauge high speed alongside non-standard normal-speed (for instance see Spain, and likely soon Ireland).

replies(3): >>44039673 #>>44041367 #>>44041807 #
1. marcthe12 ◴[] No.44041367[source]
India had a meter gauge to broad gauge but India was always a mix and India did a very slow transition to standardize on broad gauge which kinda smoothen stuff quiet a bit