A Year of War in Ukraine: The New Railway Age

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A Year of War in Ukraine: The New Railway Age

« on: February 21, 2023, 06:45:59 pm »

Partly written as a result of President Biden's recent train trip

https://balkaninsight.com/2023/02/21/a-year-of-war-in-ukraine-the-new-railway-age/

Plans to overcome the difference in gauge

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The plans are to build the new high-speed link on the existing Warsaw-Lviv-Kyiv route, adapting it to the European gauge width of 1435 mm in order to carry trains moving at speeds of up to 250 kilometres per hour.

although I don't think it will be in time to materially affect the current conflict.

And the Presidential train
https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0aff-0242-f5f0-08db138eafa3_w1023_s.jpg
https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0aff-0242-e30c-08db138c570f_w1023_s.jpg


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