Jon WorthAre SNCF's TGVs too big for Italian tunnels?
The answer: check a map
But the problem: I do not know of a public loading gauge map for all Italian lines
Can anyone point me to one?
Grazie mille! Merci beaucoup!
Oliver Blanthorn@jon https://data-interop.era.europa.eu/map-explorer if you click on a line on this map and then click on a track in the pop-up it will tell you the loading gauge
if you're doing it enough that that's annoying and no-one else has bothered, i can probably hack together a map from the data
@jon i tried it for three different random places in Italy and they all did 🤔
are you definitely clicking on a "track" not not a "line"?
Will Deakin@bovine3dom @jon interesting. Is there an API or download for the ERA track-data?
波鉄 (Hatetsu)@HaTetsu @bovine3dom @jon yeah kind of but it seems to want me to write some kind of RDF triple query. Which is not my jam
@wnd @bovine3dom @jon I think that was Resources > Endpoint, though? Dataset Explorer seems to have, well, per infra manager dataset download links
@HaTetsu their server didn't like it when i asked for loading gauge so i wrote my own xml parser
i think we're getting somewhere. red is more restricted gauge, i think, and blue is less restricted?
if anyone can point me at a 'Gauge=20 => "GB"' dictionary and, even better, a big dictionary of 'my gauge => compatible gauges', i can make a nice map of 'i bought four billion quid's worth of trains now let's see where can i go with them'
Martin Hoffmann@bovine3dom @HaTetsu @wnd @jon There certainly is a reason why all the new double decker trains in Germany are terrible upstairs. G2, I want to say?
@jon @bovine3dom @HaTetsu @wnd It’s possible. They are going to be owned by the state, so reuse on other lines elsewhere is unlikely. And they’ve been using the big Bombardier Dostos for ages.