With an operating speed of 250 kilometers per hour and a built-in cinema, has Hitler’s railway plan been realized?

Although the Industrial Revolution took the lead in developing in the United Kingdom, it seems that Britain is already an old industrial country, and its glory is far less than that of latecomers. What's more, during the second industrial revolution, Britain, which was far ahead, did not see this opportunity. Instead, Germany took the lead.

However, even this cannot erase the contribution made by Britain on that day, especially in terms of railways. At that time, designers based on the width of ancient Roman avenues and the width of a two-horse carriage, set the 1435 mm railway track as the world standard track. However, despite this, the designer, considering the cost of train construction, proposed that the width of the railway track could be increased to increase the smoothness of the train and the speed of the train.

But obviously this idea was not realistic. Tens of thousands of kilometers of railways had already been built at that time. If the width of the railway track was to be changed again, it would be too wasteful of manpower, material and financial resources. And for railway companies, they do not consider the cost of train construction. Instead, they choose to use narrow-gauge railways with a shorter construction period based on their own company's interests. However, in 1833, some railways in western England adopted wide gauge, but this approach did not break the legal standard of 1435 mm.

However, in 1941, with the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, the original supply of materials was far from meeting people's needs, and maritime transportation was even more difficult to fight the fire near. Coupled with the severe cold in the Soviet Union and the exorbitant cost of highways, designers had to return to the idea of ??wider tracks.

The person who proposed this kind of design thinking was Adolf. Although Adolf himself also stated that such a railway has strategic significance, it is difficult to build. But when he thought that after the construction of this railway was completed, it would become a new railway network in the world and a land fleet that would not be threatened by the sea, Adolf felt that these additional obstructive factors were secondary.

In order to make the plan more effective, Adolf used his imagination to draw up a broad-gauge railway route map in advance. This line reaches the Pacific Ocean in the east and the Indian subcontinent in the south. It can be said to be a real "land empire" . And at the meeting, when many design tycoons gathered, Adolf used his original sketches to explain his design concept.

Firstly, the first floor of the carriage is a restaurant, and the size of the space needs to be in line with that of a palace; secondly, the sleeper carriage should be two stories high, with comfortable bedrooms on both sides of the central corridor; thirdly, in the space It also needs to accommodate families. According to Adolf's design concept, the load capacity of one carriage can reach 100 tons. This design plan submitted technical documents in May 1943. According to the documents later displayed, it included diesel engines, electric locomotives and steam locomotives, as well as some corresponding implementation plans for laying tracks, and drawings of corresponding equipment facilities.

If the train can be opened smoothly, according to the distance between Berlin and Moscow, it is 1923 kilometers, the distance between Istanbul and Istanbul is 2429 kilometers, the distance between Bucharest and Rome is 1759 kilometers, and the distance between Rome and Rome is 1627 kilometers. However, due to the excessive braking distance, For a long time, designers decided to reduce the design speed of the bus from 400 kilometers per hour to 250 kilometers per hour, so that the distance spent on each route would not exceed 24 hours.

So based on the estimated track gauge of 3000mm, and taking into account some related factors such as speed, turning angle, etc., the length of the train is 1100 to 1200 meters, and the total carrying capacity can be as high as 10,000 tons. At the same time, in order to overcome the airflow resistance problem caused by high-speed movement, the designer designed the front of the train into a wedge shape. However, because the train's 180-degree turning radius is only 500 meters, even the most advanced braking system at the time was of no help when it snowed or fogged. Therefore, to overcome this difficulty, designers developed a new high-frequency sensor system.

So according to the final specifications, such an ordinary bus will be equipped with a giant cinema, bathhouse, library and hotel lobby. Among them, the cinema carriage has 196 seats, and the screen It is even more than five meters high; ordinary seat carriages can generally accommodate 192 seats and are equipped with corresponding reading rooms, cafes, bars, conference rooms and restrooms to meet people's daily needs; and each carriage has about The 480 bunks are also equipped with corresponding facilities.

By 1944, the 3-kilometer-long train had completed trials. The next step is to start this project in all the European countries it occupies according to the original plan. However, after the end of World War II, this project was only constructed for less than a year before the Soviet Red Army seized all the technical data and was forced to stop.

In the final analysis, Germany’s idea is not for the sake of the world, but for personal interests in order to pray for a larger empire. It was terminated in the end, and there was nothing to regret.