Proposed routes

Proposals of broad gauge corridors

 

Routes:

*Great Western Main Line Broad Gauge corridor: London - Reading - Bristol - Exeter - Plymouth - Penzance

*East Coast Main Line Broad Gauge corridor: London - York - Newcastle-upon-Tyne - Edinburgh - Dundee - Abadeen - Inverness, and Edinburgh - Glasgow

*International Broad Gauge corridor: London - Ipswich - Rotterdam (Netherlands) - Berlin (Germany)

*Paris-Moscow Broad Gauge corridor: Paris (France) - Liege (Belgium) - Aachen (Germany) - Berlin (Germany) - Warsaw (Poland) - Minsk (Belarus) - Moscow (Russia)

*Moscow - Astana Broad Gauge corridor: Moscow (Russia) - Kazan (Russia) - Astana (Kazakhstan)

*Moscow - Vladivostok Broad Gauge corridor: Moscow (Russia) - Vladivostok (Russia) (further north than existing Trans-Siberian Railway)

*Moscow - North America Broad Gauge corridor: Moscow (Russia) - (Bering Strait Tunnel) - Fairbanks (Alaska) - Fort Nelson (Canada) - Edmonton (Canada) - Winnipeg (Canada) - Quebec (Canada) - Montreal (Canada) - Toronto (Canada) - Pittsburgh (USA) - New York (USA), Edmonton (Canada) - Calgary (Canada) - Salt Lake City (USA) - Los Angeles (USA), and Fort Nelson (Canada) - Vancouver (Canada) - Seattle (USA) - Portland (USA) - Los Angeles (USA)

*Scandinavia Broad Gauge corridor: Amsterdam (Netherlands) – Dortmund (Germany) – Bremen (Germany) – Hamburg (Germany) – Gothenburg (Sweden) – Boden (Sweden) – Finland – Nizhny Novgolod (Russia) / (Bering Strait Tunnel)

 

Track gauge: 2140mm (7ft0.25in)

Electrification: 50kV AC overhead lines (50Hz and 60Hz)

Loading gauge: 30m long, 4.7m wide and 6.7m tall (7m tall for freight)

Platform heights: 200mm, 380mm and 550mm above top of the rails

Minimum platform length: 600m (1070m for the east of Rotterdam and the east of Aachen)

Type of ties: concrete

Traction motors: Asynchronous induction motors

Drivetrain: WN drive

 

For Great Western Main Line, current existing Standard Gauge (1435mm = 4ft8.5in) tracks should be moved to adjacant area.

 

 

contacts:

http://www.alstom.com/microsites/transport/products-and-services/main-line/ Alstom (Main Line)

http://www.bombardier.com/en/transportation.html Bombardier Transportation (rail transport)

http://www.tmholding.ru/en/ Transmashholding

http://www.uic.org/ UIC (International Union of Railways)

http://www.uic.org/spip.php?article1164 Contact to UIC

http://forum1520.com/ Team 1520 Strategic Partnership

http://www.breitspurbahn.de/2140.html breitspurbahn.de > Brunel gauge

 

http://www.patentjp.com/13/I/I100049/DA10015.html Patentjp.com (in Japanese)

http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/m_in_gwr.htm Great Western Railway main index

http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/index.htm Great Western Railway archive

http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/stat_1.htm Great Western Railway station

http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/sitemap.htm Great Western Railway sitemap

http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/links.htm Great Western Railway sitemap 2

http://www.broadgauge.org.uk/index.html Broad Gauge Society

http://www.broadgauge.org.uk/about/bgs_about.html BGS about

http://www.broadgauge.org.uk/about/bgs_contacts.html BGS contact

http://www.broadgauge.org.uk/about/bgs_membership.html BGS membership

http://www.broadgauge.org.uk/history/bg_what_is.html Broad Gauge?

http://www.broadgauge.org.uk/history/bg_today_london.html BG London-Bristol

http://www.broadgauge.org.uk/history/bg_today_west.html BG Bristol-Penzance

http://www.broadgauge.org.uk/history/bg_track_sig.html Broad Gauge Track

http://www.broadgauge.org.uk/history/bg_broad_history.html Broad Gauge History

http://www.broadgauge.org.uk/history/bg_gauge_map.html BGS Gauge Map

http://www.broadgauge.org.uk/heritage/bg_remnants.html BG Remnants

http://www.broadgauge.org.uk/heritage/bg_high_wycombe.html High Wycombe