Reading about a new railroad that just began construction in Russia and it got me thinking about freight traffic in tons vs freight traffic in trains:http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/infrastructure/single-view/view/construction-of-northern-latitudinal-railway-to-start-in-2019.html …
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Single track line can accommodate far more (or far less!) than 22 pairs of trains, though, depending on a variety of circumstances
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This is something I've always wondered about: train weight? track quality? what are the variables?
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Presence or absence of sidings, signalling system, train speeds, train lengths, track quality--those are the ones that come to mind immediately
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