Breitspurbahn

Breitspurbahn
East–West Mainline
Brest
Rennes
Paris
Munich branch
Metz
Saint-Quentin
Madrid
Liège
Barcelona
Aachen
Marseille
Spanish branch
Emmerich
Karlsruhe
Ruhrgebiet
Hamburg
Stuttgart
Hanover
Northwest–Southeast
Mainline
Berlin
Northwest–Southeast
Mainline
East–West Mainline
Prague branch
Moscow branch
Leipzig
Warsaw
Gotha
Minsk
Bamberg
Arctic branch
Nuremberg
St. Petersburg
Munich branch
Munich
Dresden
Linz
Prague
Prague branch
Vienna
Italian branch
Trieste
Moscow
Rome
Kazan
Bratislava
Kabul branch
Budapest
Akmolinsk
Bucharest
Kabul
Istanbul
Krasnoyarsk
Cottbus
Vladivostok branch
Breslau
Khabarovsk
Kattowitz
Vladivostok
Krakau
Yakutsk
Lemberg
Kyiv
Fairbanks
Odessa branch
to U.S. via Canada
Odessa
Stalingrad branch
Rostov-on-Don
Kharkov
Baku
Stalingrad
to India via Iran
Astrakhan
Herat

The Breitspurbahn (German pronunciation: [ˈbʁaɪtʃpuːɐ̯baːn], translation: broad-gauge railway) was a railway system planned and partly surveyed by the Nazi government of Germany. Its track gauge – the distance between the two running rails – was to be 3000 mm (9 ft 10+18 in), more than twice that of the 1435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge used in western Europe. The railway was intended initially to run between major cities of the Greater Germanic Reich (the regime's expanded Germany)[1] and neighbouring states.

  1. ^ Puffert, Douglas J. (2009). Tracks across continents, paths through history: the economic dynamics of standardization in railway gauge. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226685090. p 182