France's trains are too wide: 6 notorious engineering oversights

Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 11:10 in Physics & Chemistry

Engineers at France's railway network forgot to measure the distance between the tracks and the platforms when they bought new trains — a mistake that will cost $68 million US to fix and which joins some of the costliest engineering miscalculations of all time.

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