Talk:Rail Baltica

Map issues

Someone needs to explain what the dashed lines on the map route indicate.Dogru144 (talk) 18:40, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

The recently added [1] explanation that "The dashed line is the alternative with an upgraded old railway" is not quite correct: there is no existing railway from the Polish border to Vilnius, or from Panevezis to Riga, or around Riga. The line is just an artist's view of several alternative and intermediate routes. The solid line is the suggested final route, compare it with the maps Feasibily Study [2], Figures 1.2 and 1.3. -- Beil (talk) 13:01, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Integration or disintegration

One of the project's aspects is the conversion of the Baltic States' rail network to Standard Gauge (1,435 mm/4 ft 8 1⁄2 in), thus improving rail integration with Europe at the expense of integration with the Russian system (1,520 mm/4 ft 11 5⁄6 in). Isn't it ment to be ... at the expense of disintegration with the Russian system ? --Edroeh (talk) 19:23, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Rail Baltica should choose 1520mm gauge lines to Paris Nord, France, instead of 1435mm gauge lines to Tallin, Estonia. In addition, EU should fund French rail networks, not Baltic States. Population in Baltic States is shrinking, while population in France is increasing.

• Spain/Portugal: gauge conversion from 1668mm to 1435mm
• Baltic States: 1435mm gauge line (3kV DC) to Kaunas, Lithuania
• France: loading gauge enlargement
• CIS states, Baltic States, Poland, Germany, Belgium, France, Slovakia, Austria: 1520mm gauge lines (25kV 50Hz AC) to Paris, France
• Finland, Estonia: Helsinki-Tallin tunnel should be built at 1520mm gauge (double-track, 25kV 50Hz AC)

180.196.226.152 (talk) 03:33, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

May 2011

May 2011 is gone. Are there news about the estonian route and the chosen standard? --Edroeh (talk) 19:32, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Electrification system of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge railway near Baltic States is 3 kV DC only. 180.199.25.146 (talk) 07:53, 1 August 2012 (UTC)