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Some bridges and tunnels are also not electrified in Austria but electric trains still pass through them on their massive inertia alone. It's really not a big i
by ChuckNorris89 4y ago
Some bridges and tunnels are also not electrified in Austria but electric trains still pass through them on their massive inertia alone. It's really not a big issue for trains.
- pmyteh 4y agoThey're doing that more here (putting neutral sections with reduced clearance under bridges) but it doesn't save everything. A major disadvantage of being early to the railway game is that we have amongst the most restrictive structure gauge in the world. It also turns out that we've repeatedly stopped and restarted our electrification campaign over the last hundred years, such that we have little persistent expertise and excessive costs per km. So it's not just tunnels and bridges.