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Photos of ruins and structures from past eras
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What is a ruin? We're running off of "You know it when you see it" at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like. Generally speaking, specific items from a ruin should go to HistoryArtifacts@kbin.social Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to HistoryDrawings@kbin.social Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world
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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