What gauge is the CTRL being built to?
If the need arose through incresed demand would a double deck TGV be
able to get into St Pancras when it is finished?

Tony
<DD TGV at Bezier http://tonyhunter2814.fotopic.net/p19717298.html >

tfh of Hednesford wrote:

> What gauge is the CTRL being built to?


UIC 'C' gauge, except for platforms at stations, which are to 'B'
gauge. The platforms are on loops so freight can bypass them. Should
let pretty much anything run through from the Continent (bear in mind
that the other end of the Channel Tunnel is in France, where you don't
usually get anything better than 'B+' gauge anyway).

Strangely, I can't find anything on t'Internet that actually states the
gauge of the CTRL, other than a report of a presentation by Union
Railways in 2002: <http://www.lococarriage.org.uk/ctrl.htm>. I am
starting to wonder if there might be a tiny difference between what was
planned and what's actually being built...

(See also Joyce's Gauge Page at
<http://www.joyce.whitchurch.btinternet.co.uk/gauges/text.htm>.)
-- 
Pat Ricroft, City of Salford, UK
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