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Re: Gauge change
Author: Michael Mahoney
Date: 02-28-2009 - 17:29

The TGVs between France and Spain are all standard gauge. The gauge change is in the older conventional trains. As I understand it (I've never seen this) the wide-gauge carriages arriving from Spain are put onto a special track that loosens up the wheels and pushes them into standard-gauge position, then tightens them up again. Going the other way, the process is reversed. It apparently takes a little while, but not a huge amount of time.

The locomotives do not need to be changed, because locomotives are changed at the border in any event.

Michael Mahoney

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