Did you know Via Rail has a fleet of British Rail Gauge train cars?They obtained them from a failed sleeper service through the Chunnel in the 90s. I rode with them on the Montréal to Halifax rail service called The Ocean. Part of a big rail journey I took this summer across eastern Canada and Europe.@rail #trains #railways #viarail #halifax
Sweden has a broader loading gauge than mainland Europe (the sleeper services to the continent had to use secondhand German carriages as the domestic ones wouldn’t fit), which would presumably not feel quite as cramped on North American railroads. Britain, however, has an unusually narrow loading gauge. I would imagine that the ex-Eurostar wagons would be considered uncomfortably cramped by Canadian standards.