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Thanks, I didn't realise the maintenance angle, as naïvely I assumed they would just build a facility next to the new track. Guess we're stuck with the Victorian loading gauge.
Oliver Schick-
They'll build a new depot, but stock needs to be moved around all the time - on routes not necessarily related to the service route(s).
And to be fair, deviating from the Victorian loading gauge would necessitate a huge amount of Civil Engineering work to increase the size of all the tunnels and bridges. It's kind of locked in now.
Ben689908
No. If it's any bigger, it won't be possible to move it around the network for maintenance or other.