Another thing, there seems to be a hole in the normal gauge grid. What about a normal gauge line from the proposed Kazakhstan line through southern Russia to Kiev, Warsaw and Berlin? :D
Then you could travel from Berlin to Beijing in practically s straight line, saving lots of time and without any change of train.
Think about it, standing at the new Berlin Hbf and looking at the big screen: Beijing, 40 hours. :D Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
Yes, but that's not high-speed :-)
What about a normal gauge line from the proposed Kazakhstan line through southern Russia to Kiev, Warsaw and Berlin?
Unfortunately, for that to become reality, Russia would have to decide that creating a concurrence to the Transsib of which only a small part passes through Russia (and entitles to passage fees) brings extra profit.
(By the way, there is a broad-gauge freight railway from Ukraine through Poland right until Ostrava/Czech Republic, so the gauge-changing problems can be bypassed the other way too.)
Think about it, standing at the new Berlin Hbf and looking at the big screen: Beijing, 40 hours. :D
I dream of that, too :-) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
