by philipmartin
george matthews wrote: If the EU collapses the three countries would have little alternative to being connected again with Russia. In which case they would need Broad gauge.Thank you for the information, George.
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george matthews wrote: If the EU collapses the three countries would have little alternative to being connected again with Russia. In which case they would need Broad gauge.Thank you for the information, George.
philipmartin wrote:But I don't think the EU will collapse. I don't even think Britain will actually leave. I do think there will be a Standard Gauge link from Poland up to the coast facing Finland. How long it will take to build it I have no idea but when it arrives there will be good arguments for extending a link into Finland via either a train ferry - so common in Scandinavia - or even a tunnel. And perhaps also a SG link from Sweden. The Swedish link might be achieved by relaying the existing rail line from the frontier, or by building a High Speed SG line to Helsinki.george matthews wrote: If the EU collapses the three countries would have little alternative to being connected again with Russia. In which case they would need Broad gauge.Thank you for the information, George.
A few years ago there where bold ideas of a northern Europe rail connection from ice free harbour of Narvik (Norway) into Russia and even further, but as I am writing this not much has happened with respect to that.Norway is in NATO and is most unlikely to want a Russian Broad Gauge link. There are also sheer physical problems. I have taken a train from Sweden to Narvik and returned. The line descends a steep escarpment. It is of course very busy with numerous trains carrying iron ore from the Swedish deposits.
rhallock wrote:While traveling from Poland to Kaunas I also noticed a rather large, but under-used, intermodal terminal at Sestokai, just north of the border. I have discovered that this is to be part of a new route called "Amber Train", which had its first trial trip on April 20th this year. http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/frei ... igned.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;How are the trains in Poland these days. When I travelled there early 1990's , they had quite new mainline stock , similar to DB coaches of the day . Have they been modernised since?
David Benton wrote:I went to Poland a year after the fall of the Wall. As in Germany I noticed they had a lot of East German carriages. But they have had plenty of time to to replace them.rhallock wrote:While traveling from Poland to Kaunas I also noticed a rather large, but under-used, intermodal terminal at Sestokai, just north of the border. I have discovered that this is to be part of a new route called "Amber Train", which had its first trial trip on April 20th this year. http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/frei ... igned.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;How are the trains in Poland these days. When I travelled there early 1990's , they had quite new mainline stock , similar to DB coaches of the day . Have they been modernised since?