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The article doesn't make clear exactly how many miles (kilometers) of track of the breitspurbhan was actually physically constructed. Keraunos (talk) 10:09, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Considering it was supposedly started shortly before Stalingrad, I'd say none. The article exists to make hitler seem like a fool. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.27.82.232 (talk) 13:06, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

But did they make ANY full-scale hardware at all? I'm thinking about bogies, maybe a few hundred meters of test track, a flatcar with a mock-up of the passenger car body or stuff like that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.48.97.153 (talk) 00:58, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

10ft=3048mm, 9ft10in=2997mm. 58.138.55.55 (talk) 07:38, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Breitspurbahn aka Giant Railway, Giant gauge or Nazi broad gauge. 58.138.45.196 (talk) 13:23, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Connect to India[edit]

Proposed routes toward India, one route through Iran via Baku, the others through Kazakhstan then Afghanistan. 180.199.35.147 (talk) 06:14, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Trackbed widths comparision[edit]

Trackbed widths of double-track 3000mm gauge similar 4-track standard gauge (German layout).
Trackbed widths of double-track 2503mm gauge similar 4-track standard gauge (2 tracks of German layout and the other 2 tracks of British layout).
Trackbed widths of double-track 2140mm gauge similar 4-track standard gauge (British layout).

180.199.58.78 (talk) 10:43, 14 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Background[edit]

Originally proposed as 4-metre, but reduced to 3000. Because during WWII, Great Britain, France and Soviet Union proposed 2140 Brunel gauge network around Germany. 180.199.45.105 (talk) 23:54, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have the slightest evidence or sourcing for this claim? Andy Dingley (talk) 00:06, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Andy, just FYI... we have had some long-term problems with an anonymous editor based in Japan who has some strange ideas about gauge (and occasionally platform height, electrification &c). I doubt that blocking would work because of the wide range of dynamic IPs; semiprotection is probably a bad idea due to the variety of articles and the slow trickle of edits. But if you see anybody changing articles with unsourced fantasy like that, feel free to revert. Here's a couple of old examples which might shed some light on this editor's interests: [1] [2] bobrayner (talk) 14:25, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]