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Originally Posted by milomilo
An average speed for HFR of 85mph does sound high. For interest, I compared it to a route I know well - London (UK) to Newcastle, which while not HSR, is 125mph trains on high quality, fast, electrified track with only a few stops (perhaps only 1 - 3). It does the 270ish miles in about 3 hours 10 minutes - 85mph. Sometimes they can go a little faster, and slower also.
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The currently planned average speed is 78 mph for the Toronto-Ottawa portion. It's 253 miles planned in 3 hr 15 mins.
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Originally Posted by milomilo
Happy to be corrected, but I cannot see a Siemens Charger on Canadian track spending anywhere close to as much time at a top speed of 125mph as they would on the East Coast Main Line in the UK, where it's basically full speed the whole trip.
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Brightline in Florida is building to a similar goal. 240 miles between Miami and Orlando in 3 hrs. They are using Chargers too. The cover the ~68 miles between Miami and West Palm Beach in an hour today. And that's in a much more urbanized/built up environment.
The Chargers are capable of 125 mph. Class 6 track would allow 110 mph without grade separation requirements. So again, this comes down to how much the government is willing to spend enable VIA to achieve a decent running time on these new segments.
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