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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social
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This week:
Analysis: Wunderline turns to farce, and accountability collapses

Bullshit Meter: Croatia - Greece trains on an EU funded coast line

Good week: Battery trains for Niedersachsen, new tracks for Brandenburg
Wunderline poster
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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social
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Also a good week: Portugal starts building a broad gauge high speed line

Unexpectedly good week: New high speed line opens in European Türkiye

Bad week: More than a Renfe AVE 100 power car in danger of going up in flames
Edirne station building
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Mitigations against a bad week: RegioJet has backup plans in case its new Pesa EMUs are not ready in December

Photo of the week: Frecciarossa at Gallese Teverina

Calendar: TGV-M launch 6 November
Drone pic of Frecciarossa
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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social
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And of course 🇵🇹 building a broad gauge high speed line got all the whingeing going

Here’s why re-gauging lines probably makes no sense:
jonworth.eu/why-you-probably-should-not-re-gauge-railways-in-europe/

And were Portugal to build a 1435mm HSL, then they’re going to need gauge changing trains, and look at Talgo’s mess currently
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Jon Worth @jon@gruene.social
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It’s not that complicated

1) You cannot re-gauge all of 🇪🇸 and 🇵🇹 railways to 1435mm in a cost effective & timely manner, and you should not try

2) So if 🇵🇹 is to build a HSL, you either have multiple breaks of gauge nationally, and have to buy Talgo trains, or you leave the break of gauge somewhere in 🇪🇸 where fewer of your passengers go (and Renfe doesn’t give a shit about 🇵🇹 anyway)

So 1668mm HSL makes sense
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Moof! progresspride 🔜 UK @moof@cupoftea.social
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@jon Troll: but they did re-gauge both countries in the 50s

Orc: But Spain has been laying re-gaugeable track since the late 80’s

(Edited as it seems glitchsoc removed my xml-like tags)
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amrtf 🏳️‍⚧️ @amrtf@net.amr.tf
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@moof @jon They did to made a unify the Spanish gauge (1672 mm, 6 Spanish feet) and the Portuguese one (1664 max, 6 Portuguese feet) without any compatibility issues because IIRC it’s within the 8 mm threshold

Since the 90s we have sleepers, called traviesa polivalente, which makes it more easier to changing gauge but the problem regauging all the rolling stock and changing the switches with all the economical costs of doing that

Edit: I didn’t see Moof’s edit until now, sorry!
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