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Originally Posted by tayser
I don't see the point in having any type of standard, or more to the point, push to rip up streets to make tracks a standard gauge across cities whose systems are not connected (and in different countries). Rail vehicle manufacturers should be able to cater for an individual system's needs and if they can't then they're not doing their job properly.
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There is a type of standard, especially for newbuild systems, rail vehicle manufactures need to be able to cater for an individual system's needs if building for a legacy system, less so if building completely new vehicles running only on completely new track.
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Originally Posted by tayser
The rails may be the same distance apart, but nearly every city will have a different loading gauge .: an obsession with track gauge standards is just meh.
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Of course, the rails must be the same distance apart in order to match the axle-length.