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a chloropleth map of europe coloured by the maximum cross-sectional area, the loading gauge, permitted by tracks, relative to GC (the de-facto standard loading gauge for new tracks) red = smaller, purple = bigger. france/italy have narrower networks, sweden and finland have massive ones

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a chloropleth map of europe coloured by the maximum cross-sectional area, the loading gauge, permitted by tracks, relative to GC (the de-facto standard loading gauge for new tracks) red = smaller, purple = bigger. france/italy have narrower networks, sweden and finland have massive ones
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Oliver Blanthorn (bovine3dom@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Mar-2026 23:40:11 JST Oliver Blanthorn

new map for you all: "how big can trains be?" across europe using declared loading gauges from the ERA RINF. purple = big trains, red = small trains, green = somewhere in between.
https://compute.olie.science/expo/?data=loading_gauge/2026-03-18#x=8.0973&y=48.8056&z=5.0605
thanks go to @kaat0 for helping with the data. all mistakes are my own :)

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