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Trains in Switzerland are not allowed to have 256 axles

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Re: Trains in Switzerland are not allowed to have 256 axles

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Trains longer than 256 aren't the issue as the numbers roll over. The problem is trains with exactly 256 axles (or a multiple of 256), they're seen as zero.

Not an expert, but I imagine it could still cause some routing problems if a 258-axle train were mis-registered as a 2-axle train; the latter takes up dramatically more space on the network.

Considering that a train can require 2 km to break, I'm sure they keep enough space between trains that there's plenty of space for both 258 or 2 axles trains. Knowing a train is there seems much more important than its lengths (up until they decide that 2 axles trains can be much closer to another trains).
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