Rail gauge in Estonia

Rail gauge in Estonia

Estonia mainly uses a rail gauge of RailGauge|1520 (Russian gauge), inherited from the Soviet Union times. After independence technical specification from Finland was received and nominally Estonia now uses RailGauge|1524Fact|date=July 2008.

Tallinn has tram with RailGauge|1067 cape gaugeFact|date=July 2008.

Historically Estonia had RailGauge|750 narrow gauge installationsFact|date=July 2008.

External links

*http://www.rrdc.com/article_05_2003_evr_todays_rwys.pdf


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