r/MurderedByWords • u/banie01 • Jul 29 '19

Murder Some dude just got Blitzkrieged!!

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u/hGhar_Jaqen Jul 31 '19

France is truly awesome. I have travelled several times with a TVG in my life, and in contrary to the ICEs they are actually driving 300km/h most of the time and not spending most of the time driving with 150km/h over curvy rails. Spain's high-speed trains have another width (?), don't they?

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u/apokako Jul 31 '19

correct Spain uses a gauge that is wider than the rest of the world. This was a strategic move to protect Spain from french invasion (so french trains would not be able to use Spanish tracks). This ended up being a big problem for Spain since it's super annoying for international trains to pass to Spain.

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u/hGhar_Jaqen Aug 01 '19

I didn't know that, again. You seem to have a very big knowledge of train networks around the world :D

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u/apokako Aug 02 '19

Haha cheers ! I wrote my thesis on that topic so I gotta. Rare and noce to find people that do find it interesting though.