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> It would not solve the issues already mentioned, which is that infrastructure is built for a set gauge, and wide-gauge carriages cannot physically fit in some
by larusso 4y ago
> It would not solve the issues already mentioned, which is that infrastructure is built for a set gauge, and wide-gauge carriages cannot physically fit in some places in a narrow-gauge network.
My solution to this problem: Build it the other way. Use dual carriages from the EU side and add the gauge changeover at the border. I really don‘t see the reason why the wide-gauge trains have to travel over the border. Yes they can carry more load but that is simply something we have to live with. But they will try to unblock the ports before they even attempt to solve this issue.
- kposehn 4y agoExactly. Allowing European unit trains to run into Ukraine for grain would be a significant improvement at vastly lower cost.
- petre 4y agoRussia would then bomb the Ukrainian part of this would be rail infrastructure, claiming it's used to transport weapons. But here is a discussion about this: https://en.thepage.ua/economy/ukraines-switch-to-european-railway-gauge https://en.thepage.ua/economy/ukraines-switch-to-european-ra... Romania still has an old Soviet gauge railway from Reni, Ukraine into the Galati Danube port via Giurgiulesti, Moldova. Poland also has Railway Line no. 65. Slovakia has two such lines, Uzhhorod to Kosice and one from Chop to Dobra. All of these should be repaired and used to get the grain out of Ukraine. There are also some older standard gauge lines from Poland and into Ukraine.
- dredmorbius 4y agoRussia are already a demonstrably bad-faith and unreliable actor. I'd not let that stand as an obstruction to re-guaging UA rail.