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Sure there is, but people (designers/builders) need to check it. This - sometimes - simply doesn't happen, I can remember at least two similar cases, a "big" o
by jaclaz 5y ago
Sure there is, but people (designers/builders) need to check it.
This - sometimes - simply doesn't happen, I can remember at least two similar cases, a "big" one in France:
https://www.cnet.com/news/engineers-blamed-as-france-orders-two-thousand-trains-the-wrong-size/ https://www.cnet.com/news/engineers-blamed-as-france-orders-...
And a "smaller" in Italy (no English source I can find, sorry):
https://www.ferrovieabbandonate.it/linea_dismessa.php?id=226 https://www.ferrovieabbandonate.it/linea_dismessa.php?id=226
https://www.comune.roma.it/PCR/resources/cms/documents/Incontro_pubblico_Ripristino_ValleAureliaVignaClara_01.12.2015.pdf https://www.comune.roma.it/PCR/resources/cms/documents/Incon...
basically the tunnel didn't allow enough clearance for a double track in certain points, so a single track was placed (temporarily, for Itala 90 world championship, some 30 years ago, the tunnel was used - with single track - for a few days and then closed, it will probably be reopened in 2022).
- Pinus 5y agoIIRC what happened in France was indeed that the platforms were out of spec, or perhaps the specs were out of platform. The rolling-stock people asked the tracks-and-platforms people for the specs, and got the latest version. The fact that several older platforms still in use were built to an earlier set of specs got lost somewhere along the way...