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Old Posted Jul 6, 2015, 10:48 PM
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Saudi Arabia , Algeria , Malaysia , Thailand....Brazil? All ahead of the US....rather sad...
Not sure how you can conclude any of them are ahead of US in terms of HSR.

Saudi Arabia has one HSR line under construction.

Algeria is upgrading one line to HSR standards.

Malaysia and Thailand both in the planning stages and have no HSR under construction.

Brazil HSR plan is a fiasco.

US has one operating HSR line (Amtrak Acela/NEC) and one under construction (CAHSR) and multiple HSR lines under various stages planning (NEC extension, Illinois/Midwest, Texas, Neveda).
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Old Posted Jul 7, 2015, 1:37 PM
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Not sure how you can conclude any of them are ahead of US in terms of HSR.

Saudi Arabia has one HSR line under construction.

Algeria is upgrading one line to HSR standards.

Malaysia and Thailand both in the planning stages and have no HSR under construction.

Brazil HSR plan is a fiasco.

US has one operating HSR line (Amtrak Acela/NEC) and one under construction (CAHSR) and multiple HSR lines under various stages planning (NEC extension, Illinois/Midwest, Texas, Neveda).
USA has two under construction, California and Florida (The line from Miami to Orlando will travel at 125mph between West Palm and Orlando).
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Old Posted Sep 13, 2015, 10:17 PM
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A video posted yesterday showing the latest views of construction on the new high-speed line bypassing Nîmes and Montpellier in the dense corridor of coastal Languedoc, Southern France.

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Old Posted Sep 14, 2015, 3:07 AM
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^That's beautiful, but at the same time it disgusts me because it would cost 10 times as much and take twice as long to build a comparable line in the US.
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Old Posted Sep 14, 2015, 4:07 AM
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^ don't forget the extra 5 years worth of enviro impact studies trying to determine if an electric train line will affect migratory bees or tadpoles instead of using F***ING COMMON SENSE.
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The New France-Italy High-Speed Rail Plan Has a Lot of Haters

Much opposition to this planned infrastructure.
People don't seem to realize what's good for them. But they sure like to protest !

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Following an agreement on costs signed yesterday, a new TGV link will join France’s second city of Lyon with Turin, Italy, via a new 57-kilometer (35-mile) tunnel burrowed underneath some of Europe’s highest mountains. When the line is ready in 2028, it will slash journey times between the cities and provide a greatly improved, less polluting transalpine freight corridor. Joining up to France’s existing high-speed network, it should also allow passengers to reach Paris from Milan in a mere four hours.
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Trans-Europ-Express renaissance proposed

https://www.railwaygazette.com/passe.../57409.article

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- A network of international long-distance high speed passenger services spanning much of western Europe could be launched by 2025 if proposals announced by Germany’s Federal Minister for Transport Andreas Scheuer at a virtual conference of Europe’s transport ministers on September 21 are taken forward. --- Branded TEE2.0 and envisaged as a symbol of European co-operation, the plans echo the Trans-Europ-Express network launched by seven national railways in 1957 at the instigation of former Netherlands Railways President Dr den Hollander. --- As with the original TEE trains, TEE2.0 services would operate only during the day, but Scheuer’s plans envisage that they would be matched by an expanded network of TEEN overnight links, reflecting the resurgence of interest in night trains that has built on the ‘flight shame’ movement in Scandinavia. Scheuer sees TEE2.0 as a headline move for Europe’s railways ‘in the context of a bigger Europe that has grown together’ and which is working to combat climate change.

- Each TEE2.0 service would link at least three countries, and Scheuer envisages that a ‘blueprint’ would be drawn up to ‘identify origin-destination pairs that have inadequate rail services today’. National high speed lines would be ‘interlinked’ to form international routes ‘that stimulate great demand while using as few additional paths on the domestic networks as possible’. Opportunities and risks would need to be assessed, as would ‘the technical and timetable-based challenges’. Eight routes are proposed in two phases, the second phase following after completion of the Brenner Base Tunnel, the Fehmarn Belt link. --- Scheuer envisages that a dedicated TEE2.0 company would be set up, ‘for instance by SNCF and DB’ with other ‘interested and ambitious railways’ such as the national operators in the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland possibly taking a share. The company would be approved as an independent railway undertaking and would ‘purchase services from the parent companies for production’. Existing rolling stock could be used in the short term.

- A blueprint for the proposed overnight network would ‘identify the necessary planning steps for the way forward’, with trains running at a maximum speed of 230 km/h, or 250 km/h for Talgo trains. The plans assume that existing night train services would continue to evolve and expand, and while ‘the development of additional overnight trains is to be welcomed, their economic challenge is not to be underestimated’. Eight routes are envisaged, two of which would rely on completion of major infrastructure projects such as the Fehmarnbelt link. --- Equally, there is acknowledgement of the difficulties of implementing the proposals: different traction current and train protection systems; the nationalistic outlook of individual operators; the lack of uniform marketing and pricing in the light of passengers’ rights; different requirements for seat reservations; different rules for concessions, contracts and subsidies; different languages and operating rules; different ‘technical subtleties’ and quality levels; expectations of stopping patterns; profit ethos versus public service and different forms of operator.

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Proposed TEE2.0 services

TEE1/2: Paris – Brussels – Köln – Berlin –Warszawa

TEE3/4: Amsterdam – Köln – Basel – Milano – Roma

TEE5/6: Berlin – Frankfurt – Lyon – Montpellier – Barcelona

TEE7/8: Amsterdam – Brussels – Paris – Lyon – Barcelona

TEE9/10: Berlin – München – Innsbruck – Bologna – Roma

TEE11/12: Paris – Strasbourg – Stuttgart – München – Wien – Budapest

TEE13/14: Paris – Brussels – Hamburg – København – Stockholm

TEE15/16: Stockholm – København – Berlin – München




Proposed TEEN overnight services

EN21/22: Paris – Brussels – Köln – Berlin

EN23/24: Brussels – Köln – Berlin –Praha/Warszawa

EN25/26: Amsterdam – Köln – Basel – Milano – Venezia/Genova

EN27/28: Frankfurt – Strasbourg/Zürich – Mulhouse – Lyon – Montpellier – Barcelona

EN29/30: Berlin – München – Innsbruck –Bologna – Roma/Nice

EN31/32: Paris – Strasbourg – Stuttgart – München – Wien – Budapest/Zagreb

EN33/34: Paris – Brussels/Amsterdam – Hamburg – København – Stockholm

EN35/36: Stockholm – København – Berlin – Praha – Wien/Budapest
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