Suppose a very long railway line goes from South Africa to Sweden, and then it\'

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Suppose a very long railway line goes from South Africa to Sweden, and then it's decided to move the entire railway line, sliding it 1 km to the north (leaving aside the difficulty of moving and the force required).

Would the railway bend because of Coriolis force?

I mean, every point of the railway would have different tangential velocity so when moving, we have different speeds at different time, then that's acceleration, then force, so if those are different forces applied to different points of the rail, then perhaps it would bend.

Explanation / Answer

Of course that there would be forces that would try to bend the track but they would be tiny. Each segment of the track would be under the action of ?2m?

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