India shuts down most intercity rail service. Much metro service also shut down. This link is kind of light on information as to all of the shut downs.
https://www.railjournal.com/regions/asia/india-shuts-down-passenger-rail-network-until-march-31/
China has 2/3rds of the world's HSR of 22,000 miles. It expect 25,000 miles by 2025.
https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/high-performance/glass-half-full-or-half-empty/?RAchannel=news
Read a media report that Italy has shut down some rail travel in northern Italy. Milan appears to be center but have not been able to confirm same ?
EDIT Venice also closed down?
Ceneri base tunnel testing of ECTS-2 PYC starting shortly. The testing will hault some traffic thru the tunnel that at present just wayside signals.
https://www.railjournal.com/infrastructure/ceneri-base-tunnel-testing/
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Follow up of China rail loss of passengers. Many station report 80 % ++ reduction in arrivals and departures. Also service to Vietnam has been suspended.
https://www.railjournal.com/policy/china-rail-traffic-plummets-in-wake-of-coronavirus-epidemic/
Follow up about the italian HSR derailment. This appears to be another screw up by a signal maintenance crew. Maybe there needs a world wide push to improve protocols when switches are moved out of normal positions. thinking of Cayce on CSX as an example.
https://www.railwaygazette.com/high-speed/frecciarossa-1000-derails-at-high-speed/55737.article
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2020/02/06/italy-high-speed-train-derails-2-dead-dozens-injured/4676898002/
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
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/
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