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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It sits within the topics 3000 mm gauge railways, 4000 mm gauge railways and Abandoned projects of Nazi Germany.
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- Country
- Nazi Germany
- Image
- 2011-03-05-eisenbahnmuseum-nuernberg-by-RalfR-28.jpg
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- Commons category
- Breitspurbahn
- track gauge
- broad-gauge railway
- start time
- 1942-05-00
- end time
- 1945-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Proposed routes
- Tracks
- Vehicles
- Locomotives
- Multiple units
- Carriages
- Successors and similar plans
- In fiction
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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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