Croatia starting another night service.
https://www.railjournal.com/news/regiojet-opens-ticket-sales-launched-for-its-summer-night-service-to-croatia/
Another overnight service starting even with the covid-19 problems. RDC German service. Twice weekly service from the Baltic - Austria. RDC is also going to offer an Auto Train service this summer. From northern Germany - sSwitzerland.
https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/rdc-launches-new-german-overnight-service/?RAchannel=news
Sweden is doing more planning for domestic overnight train service. As well looking for night trains to Germany in 2022 -2023,
https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/main-line/sj-to-expand-domestic-night-train-offer-as-sweden-eyes-overnight-continental-connections/
France is requirig Air France to move domestic passenger to a rail route that can be completed in less than 2 - -1/2 hours. That is a requirement for a bail out.
https://www.railwaygazette.com/news/trains-prioritised-over-planes-in-air-france-rescue-deal/56408.article
China increases its HSR passenger train miles at 3.0%+ during corvid -19 times. Would be interesting if we could get a ridership report from eye witnesses ?
https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/high-speed/china-introduces-new-high-speed-services/
Note: 4970 HSR trains a day an increase of 130 trains. Link actually list a .5 train a day Interesting? Wonder how many train miles?
Also total number of train sets including spares ?
UBS=Union Bank of Switzerland
The article was vague on the connection between the pandemic and climate change.
blue streak 1UBS who I have no idea what it is
Per google,
UBS is a global firm providing financial services in over 50 countries. Visit our site to find out what we offer in the United States of America.
UBS who I have no idea what it is has a prediction that after C-19 there will be a shift to HSR. It only mentiones Europe and China not the USA.
https://www.railwaygazette.com/policy/ubs-predicts-post-pandemic-shift-from-air-to-high-speed-rail/56195.article
SNCF another hospital train
https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/main-line/sncf-operates-additional-hospital-services-for-covid-19-patients/
Isreal is speeding up is electrification plans. Save any comment ?
https://www.railwaygazette.com/infrastructure/israel-railways-electrification-plan-revised/56155.article
blue streak 1France has outfitted a TGV as a hospital train. Interesting ? Why not Amtrak ?
On the other hand, what a perfect way to throw stimulus money at reactivating the moribund LRC cars, and perhaps the HHP8s and the 'old' Acela sets and the Turboliners sold off to fire departments and use those as rapid-response deployments...
France has outfitted a TGV as a hospital train. Interesting ? Why not Amtrak ?
https://www.railwaygazette.com/high-speed/sncf-deploys-hospital-tgv/56110.article
https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/main-line/sncf-to-further-reduce-services-to-combat-coronavirus-spread/
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.
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