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I’ve been working on a fictional design for a UK high-speed rail network. It uses a 250 mph system and clockface scheduling. Everything is fully integrated into a single national timetable system.
The system is built around a single national high-speed network:
London acts as a through-flow hub, not a terminal like most national rail in England.
Some information about the design:
I also wanted to add that on the map, the numbers between each station represent the maximum permitted operating speed (mph) on that section. I also want to expand it further north into Scotland (Dundee and Aberdeen) but this will done in the future.
I am currently in the process of creating train designs and am particularly inspired by the design of the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan.
Happy 250th birthday to America! Here’s my idea of what a 110-220 mph electrified high speed rail network could look like by America’s 300th birthday.
Different speeds make sense for different routes. Some routes like Washingon-New York arguably make sense for 220 mph high speed rail, while others make more sense for 110 mph rail.
Also some routes could be extended using conventional rail such as the route Atlanta and Chattanooga being extended to Knoxville or the route between Seattle and Portland being extended to Eugene. In addition new Amtrak routes, including new Amtrak long distance routes could be added as well.
Pic 1 - 3 : CR400AF
Pic 4 - 6 : CR400BF
Pic 7 - 9 : CR400AF Intelligent
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Renfe Class 114 (pendolino)
I thought I'd share this here. Over the last few months, I've created a high-speed rail gravity model inspired by the work of CityNerd.
All you need to do is enter the cities you want to include, along with their geographic coordinates and populations (based on a 27 km catchment radius, which you can find here). The model will generate a list of potential city pairs in the Distances tab, where you'll enter the driving distances (in kilometers). From there, it produces and classifies a list of city pairs where high-speed rail is plausible, calibrated against gold-standard systems from around the world.
I figured people here might enjoy playing around with it. I'm planning to make an animated map video once I finish North America, but in the meantime, have fun with it!
One small request: if you'd like to use the spreadsheet yourself, please make your own copy first, as I'm actively using the original for ongoing projects.
Can one of you splash me in the face with hope because at almost 20 years of following the CAHSR project, I just feel defeated. I feel like the U.S. just can't build rail projects anymore. I watched a video of progress of Indias new HSR last night, and I'm hurt by how fast they've made progress.... PLEASE tell me that there is still some sliver of hope here in america to persevere through the NIMBY's and high costs (which I think is purposely be done imo)....
Looking at Alto, Canada's plans to build high-speed rail between Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Quebec City, I wonder what connections could exist between that line and the US rail network. Here are 3 possibilities, ranked by ease of connection and feasibility.
Montreal - Burlington/Plattsburgh:
Toronto - Buffalo:
Toronto - Detroit:
My Take:
TL;DR: Canada should expand their Alto HSR network and regional networks south of Montreal and west/southwest of Toronto in later phases, but this would be mega-expensive, and probably shouldn't be prioritized if the US won't build its part of the Northeast Corridor.
Photo - quick and dirty map of different alignments. Red represents necessary connections to the US rail network, and purple represents future HSR alignments in the US.
Alto links:
A render from the HSRA (High Speed Rail Authority)
The closest thing we have to HSR now - the Queensland electric tilt train
The current first stages of the Australian Government's HSR plan
For many years now, Australian public transport lovers, governments and science agencies have all pushed for HSR.
Australia doesn't have HSR.
This is my plan that I have created, and it isn't perfect or even very accurate, it's just my best attempt at doing something that everyone wants.
The Route:
The route in total is about 3000km long (That's 539,604,316 M4 Carbine Barrels for all the americans out there) with 27 stops, which would take about 13 hours considering (an ambitious) 350km/h cruise speed. There wouldn't be many people riding the whole thing, as the major cities on the way would be places for people to get on and off.
Given that this is taking place in the angloshere, it'd probably cost a trillion dollars (but probably around 350 billion AUD), and would mostly run in highway medians, but meeting existing stations and dipping under or rising over the ground to get to convenient stations.
As for rolling stock, the Government would probably want locally assembled units, and single story alstom trainsets would probably be used, with compartments, premium class and standard class.
Fares would be about 50c per km for compartment users, 25c per km for premium class passengers and 15c per km for standard class.
This would be great for Australia to have, and anyone with suggestions please do suggest your suggested suggestions.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Etihad Rail launched its inaugural journey today from Fujairah Station (Sakamkam City) to Abu Dhabi Station (Mohammed Bin Zayed City). The railway project began amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and the train service commenced during the Iranian aggression in the Arabian Gulf!
This is the United Arab Emirates, moving forward with confident strides and wise leadership, achieving one milestone after another.