Breitspurbahn
Sign in to saveThe Breitspurbahn (, ) was a railway system planned and partly surveyed by Nazi Germany. Its track gauge – the distance between the two running rails – was to be , more than twice that of the standard gauge used in western Europe. The railway was intended initially to run between major cities of the Greater Germanic Reich (the regime's expanded Germany) and neighbouring states.
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- Successors and similar plans
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The Breitspurbahn (, ) was a railway system planned and partly surveyed by Nazi Germany. Its track gauge – the distance between the two running rails – was to be , more than twice that of the standard gauge used in western Europe. The railway was intended initially to run between major cities of the Greater Germanic Reich (the regime's expanded Germany) and neighbouring states.
==History== Since reparations due after World War I had to be paid, the German railway company Deutsche Reichsbahn lacked money for appropriate expansion and sufficient maintenance of their track network and rolling stock.
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