Talk:Lagos–Kano Standard Gauge Railway

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Loading Gauge width[edit]

The brand new Shinkansen trains in Japan created a new standard for the width of carriages, namely 3,400 millimetres (11 ft 2 in). This width has been adopted for high speed trains in China and South Korea. More recently, brand new standard gauge trains in Ethiopia and Kenya have followed this loading gauge for width. It is not known if brand new railways in Tanzania and Nigeria are following suite.

Having a standard width makes rolling stock inter-runnable should these railways ever meet, as would happen with the African Integrated High Speed Railway Network (AIHSRN) 50 year African Union of Railways (AUR for Africa.

Platform heights and carriage floor heights, and the gaps between carriages and platform also need to be standardized.

A carriage width of of 3400mm allows for 2+3 seating. ----MountVic127 (talk) 11:14, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]