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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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cake-rusk ◴[20 May 25 08:35 UTC] No.44039197[source]▶
The rest of europe should move to the broader guage. It is more stable.
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jabl ◴[20 May 25 08:49 UTC] No.44039299[source]▶
The difference is so marginal it doesn't matter, and is certainly not worth the cost.

Both the heaviest cargo trains and the fastest passenger trains (ignoring monorails, maglevs etc., just normal style trains running on two steel rails) on the planet run on standard gauge.

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1. alexey-salmin ◴[20 May 25 14:29 UTC] No.44042074[source]▶
The rail gauge doesn't really matter but personally I wish Europe adopted the Russian loading gauge with 3.750m wide cars opposed to 3.080m wide. It makes a big difference on the comfort of sleeping carriages, you also have +2 seats on 2nd/3rd class sitting carriages and +1 seat on the 1st class.

That's of course completely impossible but one can dream.