Mbourgon everywhere@lemmy.world to Photos of ruins and structures from past eras@kbin.social · 1 year agoPompeii road, showing the wagon rutslemmy.worldimagemessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down10
arrow-up110arrow-down1imagePompeii road, showing the wagon rutslemmy.worldMbourgon everywhere@lemmy.world to Photos of ruins and structures from past eras@kbin.social · 1 year agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squarePons_Aelius@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoSomething something wagon ruts lead to size of space shuttle main engine somehting
minus-squaretimtoon@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoThe urban legend that train track gauge descends from Roman war chariots falls apart at every link in the chain
minus-squareHogger85b@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoYep a lot of early railways in UK were broad guage. Like brunnels Great Western. So even in England a lot of non compatible rail existed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Gauge_War
Something something wagon ruts lead to size of space shuttle main engine somehting
The urban legend that train track gauge descends from Roman war chariots falls apart at every link in the chain
Yep a lot of early railways in UK were broad guage. Like brunnels Great Western. So even in England a lot of non compatible rail existed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Gauge_War