Miningman10-12 Deaths each day. Absolutely stunning.
Until you see Indian Railways suburban trains, with people riding outside -- 5000 per train, 52% of 12 million people a year. And many lines are 3kV DC catenary...
Yes, life can be cheap. This is a culture that for millennia has treated life as a boring repetitious curse, to be evaded if at all possible.
10-12 Deaths each day. Absolutley stunning. I guess all cultures are not quite equal.
Mumbai is working on several projects. Note in link 10 - 12 deaths a day on the system !
https://www.railjournal.com/in_depth/mumbai-metro-projects-progress
Germany's DB suspends delivery of train sets from Bombardier. Software problems. Are RR builders putting too much reliance on software ?. Link says taking up to 1 hour to reboot. Thinking of the problems with the ACS-64s software. Know that the bouncing around has caused problems with read only cards in aircraft.
https://www.railjournal.com/fleet/db-suspends-ic2-delivery/
I was referring to that specific route extension. The new design, replacement equipment was already planned.
charlie hebdo More likely starting small and see if demand grows.
More likely starting small and see if demand grows.
What is the longest passenger train run from end point to end point inside of Germany?
Rio Grande Valley, CFI,CFII
Another Night jet sleeper service stated. Just 2 round trips per week. Probably due to lack of eqipment ?
https://www.railwaygazette.com/passenger/lying-not-flying-as-nightjet-sleeper-train-reaches-brussels/55579.article
https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/main-line/obb-launches-brussels-nightjet-service/
blue streak 1 Sweden wants to start overnight service to adjaecent contries. However it cannot start servuce due to lack of equipment. As well the Sweden's cars cannot go to the other EU countries. Read somewhere that swedish HEP is not compatible with rest of Europe but not sure ?? https://www.railjournal.com/
Sweden wants to start overnight service to adjaecent contries. However it cannot start servuce due to lack of equipment. As well the Sweden's cars cannot go to the other EU countries. Read somewhere that swedish HEP is not compatible with rest of Europe but not sure ??
https://www.railjournal.com/
Here is another short about the proposed overnight service stating Malmo - Kolon is preferred. As well is note that swedish cars cannot operate elsewhere . Maybe the HEP problem. Find it strange that EU has not standardize EU wide HEP if true ?
https://www.railwaygazette.com/passenger/malmö-köln-suggested-as-first-route-for-a-network-of-night-trains/55550.article
https://wikimili.com/en/Head-end_power#United_Kingdom
The current overnight train from Stockholm to Copenhagen requires a change at Lund (across the Oresund from Denmark) before 6:00 am.
blue streak 1Of course that amount of ~ $9.3B in USA???
To clarify, that's about what the Germans propose to spend on average each year on their 'infrastructure improvement' plan, expressed in US dollars.
German DB 10 year rehab plan Many billions of Euros 86B. Of course that aount of ~ $9.3B in USA per year for 10 years ???
https://www.railwaygazette.com/infrastructure/the-wow-effect-is-coming-as-german-government-signs-86bn-rail-programme/55540.article
And there's this from the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/02/germany-cuts-fares-for-long-distance-rail-travel-in-response-to-climate-crisis
Austria Night ---Has sleeper trains patronage up 10% from last year. Are we at a cusp of more sleeper demand as well here in the US ?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/business/overnight-train-austria.html
Not quite. Anderson has restored or announced he will restore sleeping car service to the Boston - Newport News overnight train.
China adds 263 more HSR trains a day. As well 7 more overnight sleeper trains. Wonder if the 7 number was all the equipment CR had? But of course Amtrak keeps saying overnight LD trains are not desired by the US public.
https://www.railjournal.com/regions/asia/china-expands-high-speed-and-overnight-sleeper-services/
Audio report European night train ridership now increasing 10% year over year after several years of declines.
https://www.pri.org/file/2019-12-31/taking-night-train-europe
China opens 2 more HSR lines and plans to open 13 more HSR extensions by end of year.
https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/high-speed/china-opens-two-high-speed-lines/
The red line runs from the old windermere station on Euclid Ave West along the old cut line to union terminal and then west to the airport. The line was extended from w third to the airport in 1967.
It has been a long time since I have been to Cleveland, but I remeber the Rapid (Red Line) working just fine for travelers and airport workers.
Norway report recommends expansion of night train service. Included is for coaches with reclining seats.
https://www.railjournal.com/fleet/report-recommends-expansion-of-norwegian-night-trains/
charlie hebdoHSR, local services by S Bahn and regional services currently work very well at Frankfurt and Düsseldorf now; soon in Stuttgart and the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport.
The same is true with SBB at Zurich and Geneva.
rdamon Does Amtrak serve the Newark (EWR) station?
Sort of, yes, but not directly:
https://www.newarkairport.com/to-from-airport/air-train
And they just opened a new terminal in MSY with no provision for rail access.
Does Amtrak serve the Newark (EWR) station?
charlie hebdoVery true. AFAIK, no US airport has a direct connection to Amtrak. Mitchell in Milwaukee comes pretty close, but not at the terminal.
New Orleans has toyed with this idea for a long time. Connecting New Orleans with Baton Rouge by a new rail passenger train would take it right past the New Orleans airport.
However, it has been talked about since the 1980s. Last year, there was another push for this train, but I have no idea if they are any closer to doing this than at any other time.
Edit: I should add that the train would originate at the Amtrak station in NO. Right now the City of New Orleans train does pass by the airport, if I remember right. There are no stops near the airport.
York1 John
Overmodthere is very little use for any dedicated light-rail system built and run at 'public' expense to reach an airport, and severe constraints imposed on a service that would do so with heavy rail or a dedicated HSR service.
HSR, local services by S Bahn and regional services currently work very well at Frankfurt and Düsseldorf now; soon in Stuttgart and the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport.
Overmodone of my transportation-program classes in college
Would that have been ORF 467:Transportation Systems Analysis? It sounds very good from the catalogue description.
JPS1A major deficiency on both services is the lack of dedicated areas for luggage.
You would not believe the shot-rabbit looks I got when I brought this point up in discussions in Memphis. It's well recognized even in bus design for terminal shuttles. And it's not just the dedicated pickup areas, it's security in those areas, access to them without discommoding other passengers, and getting the luggage reliably on and off.
In my opinion, and in my experience so far, you usually can't mix mass-transit access by passengers with access by terminal workers. That's compounded by the inability of most light-rail systems to accommodate 'two-speed' operation coherently if at all.
I have thought for a very long time that a cost-effective version of guided BRT and the usual considerations GM touted for diesel buses as early as the 1950s are almost always the 'best' prospective solution for regional access to airline terminals. In fact, wrote this up as a paper for one of my transportation-program classes in college, thinly disguised as a "PRT" solution.
With the advent of two prospective technologies (mainstream autonomous operation and plug-in BRT practical for larger vehicles) there is very little use for any dedicated light-rail system built and run at 'public' expense to reach an airport, and severe constraints imposed on a service that would do so with heavy rail or a dedicated HSR service. Of course, you would need to solve the issue of accelerated wear and spalling on the guideway surfaces -- perhaps it's a European selective-attention thing and there are easy self-leveling solutions like the ones I can think of for it.
blue streak 1 Another European airport will be getting a HSR connection (German). That as the US contines todrag its feet. https://www.railwaygazette.com/infrastructure/stuttgart-airport-rail-connection-contract-awarded/55071.article
Another European airport will be getting a HSR connection (German). That as the US contines todrag its feet.
https://www.railwaygazette.com/infrastructure/stuttgart-airport-rail-connection-contract-awarded/55071.article
Very true. AFAIK, no US airport has a direct connection to Amtrak. Mitchell in Milwaukee comes pretty close, but not at the terminal.
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