High Speed railway construction by country

TaplowGreen

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High Speed railway construction by country

« on: March 20, 2021, 09:19:38 »

This is interesting - taken from Twitter but you should be able to see it even if you don't Tweet!

https://twitter.com/seatsixtyone/status/1373198175121637377?s=20


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Re: High Speed railway construction by country

« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2021, 10:29:21 »

I've seen a few of these graphical presentations. Some of them are amusing, others quite thought-provoking, but this one is does rather make one wonder which parallel universe they are referring to in which the UK^▸ has 1997 km of high speed lines, all constructed since 1990.

HS1^▸ - the only 225 km/h-plus line in the UK - is about 108 km. If you add in the 200 km/h routes to Bristol, Newcastle, Birmingham, Sheffield and Newcastle, plus Birmingham to Sheffield (which were all quite well-established by 1990) you can get somewhere near 1350 km, but 200 km/h is setting rather a low bar...


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Re: High Speed railway construction by country

« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2021, 10:47:32 »

Obviously his needs to be referred to Professor Joad - it all depends on what you mean by (in this case) "high speed" and "construction".

The definition of high-speed lines in (for example) TSIs is having a maximum speed of 190 km/hr or above. This flattered the UK^▸ situation initially, though it also implied the applicability of the high-speed TSI (and successors) which some found irksome

All the UK lines meeting that definition acquired it by upgrade, which you might argue isn't really construction. Or you might not.


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