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    Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 08:27:46 JSTStrypeyStrypey
    in reply to
    • Potato ENTHUSIAST
    • AccordionBruce
    • Fredrik Graver
    • Tobias Baldauf

    @fgraver
    > together, Canada, USA, Mexico... — ie. North America — are more than twice the the size of China and... bigger than the largest country in the world, Russia

    OK, but Russia also seems to offer better rail services than North America;

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_Russia

    ... as does India;

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_India

    ... although neither is as advanced as China. If you look at rail across China, India and Russia as a whole, that's much bigger than North America.

    @AccordionBruce @Br3nda @tbaldauf

    In conversationabout a year ago from mastodon.nzoss.nzpermalink

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      High-speed rail in Russia
      High-speed rail is emerging in Russia as an increasingly popular means of transport, where it is twice as fast as the regular express trains between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Service development Since June 1963 the Moscow-Leningrad line (ca. 650 kilometers) was serviced by a day train Avrora that offered a 5 hr 27 min ride with speed peaking at 160 km/h, faster speeds were not possible with heavy steel carriages and existing bogies. Development of the higher speed passenger railway service in the Soviet Russia started in 1965. First, the track and safety infrastructure was upgraded, then in 1972-1975 new aluminum cars with pneumatic suspension bogies, RT-200 (Russkaya Troyka) were designed by KVZ in Kalinin, Russia. It was supposed to be a hauled by a turbojet motor car, but it didn't go beyond experiments so the trainset was hauled by with the Czechoslovak locomotive ChS-2 and its later development ChS-200, being the fastest in the Eastern Bloc. Tests confirmed the trainset was capable of 220 km/h speed on the route, although while being briefly in the commercial service ...
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      High-speed rail in India
      Indian Railways operates India's railway system and comes under the purview of the Ministry of Railways of Government of India. As of 2023, it maintains over 108,706 km (67,547 mi) of tracks and operates over 13,000 trains daily. According to the Ministry of Railways, a route capable of supporting trains operating at more than 160 km/h (100 mph) is considered as a higher speed or semi-high speed rail line. As of 2024, India does not have any operational high-speed rail lines capable of supporting more than 200 km/h (125 mph). Currently, the highest speed is achieved by Gatimaan Express and Vande Bharat Express on the Tughlakabad–Agra section and the regional RapidX services with peak operational speed of 160 km/h (100 mph). Earlier steam locomotive operated trains largely operated below 100 km/h (62 mph). With the introduction of electric locomotives in later 1920s and newer steam locomotives, speeds of 100 km/h (62 mph) were achieved. With the movement to AC traction in late 1950s and introduction of diesel locomotives, commercial speeds of up to 120 km/h (75 mph) was achieved in the late 1960s. With the introduction of high power electric...
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