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Re: Technology and historical continuity...



Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> writes:

> Correct me, if I'm wrong, but the russian railway is a little bit
> wider, than in the rest of Europe. Today any train coming from Europe
> or going to Europe has to change the wheels at the border of Russia.

Well, they'd also have to change wheels if Russian tracks were
narrower....  nevertheless, they do seem to be ~10cm wider, at least
according to <http://parovoz.com/spravka/gauges-e.html>.

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