CSSHEGEWISCH blue streak 1 China set to open another 343 kM ( ~ 215 miles ) HSR line 200kM / hr (125 MPH ) This is getting to be a recurring annoying occurrence compared to the USA ! https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/main-line/china-completes-new-harbin-jiamusi-line I suppose that it's one of the advantages of living in an authoritarian state.
blue streak 1 China set to open another 343 kM ( ~ 215 miles ) HSR line 200kM / hr (125 MPH ) This is getting to be a recurring annoying occurrence compared to the USA ! https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/main-line/china-completes-new-harbin-jiamusi-line
China set to open another 343 kM ( ~ 215 miles ) HSR line 200kM / hr (125 MPH ) This is getting to be a recurring annoying occurrence compared to the USA !
https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/main-line/china-completes-new-harbin-jiamusi-line
I suppose that it's one of the advantages of living in an authoritarian state.
You don't need to live in an authoritarian state to have high-speed rail as 13 EU member countries as well as Norway and Switzerland in Europe show. In Asia you have Turkey (since a few years on the way to an authoritarian state), Japan, South Korea, Taiwan. Even India and Thailand are currently building a high-speed line.
So please don't use not being an authoritarian state as an excuse why the USA doesn't have high-speed rail.Regards, Volker
Dutch rail reaching capacity
https://www.railjournal.com/index.php/main-line/prorail-warns-of-capacity-crunch-on-dutch-network.html?channel=000
South Korea has a station just waiting for trains that never come.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/south-korea-longs-for-a-train-to-europe--but-us-sanctions-on-north-korea-block-the-way/2018/08/03/1760ef76-9007-11e8-9b0d-749fb254bc3d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.aeb7d00a69a1
charlie hebdo DB first half 2018 punctuality and Ebit are down. http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/financial/db-records-steep-drop-in-first-half-profit.html
DB first half 2018 punctuality and Ebit are down. http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/financial/db-records-steep-drop-in-first-half-profit.html
Some additional information. The on-time performance given in the linked article is for long distance trains only. The punctuality measure is as follows: if the train is less than 6 minutes late it is called on-time. For less than 16 minutes it is about 90%.
I have looked for Amtrak's measures without success. Perhaps someone can help.Regards, Volker
Edit: After a recurring search I found Amtrak's on-time definitions.
- <250 miles: max. 10 min. after scheduled arrival- 251-350 mi: max. 15 min.- 351-450 mi: max. 20 min.- 451-550 mi: max. 25 min.- >550 miles: max. 30 min
China is still leading in HSR with over 50% of world's total. China's definition is 200 Km/Hr or higher (125 MPH). Presently 26859 Km in service end of May ( 16786 miles ). Expects 38,000 Km by 2022 (23750 miles ) . Here is some other stats. Comments ?
https://www.railjournal.com/index.php/high-speed/ten-years-27000km-china-celebrates-a-decade-of-high-speed.html?channel=000
krtravelerAnother year with two more operators achieving the impossible.
Looks good but the circumstances are very different compared to the USA.
Deutsche Bahn (DB) is a stock corporation completely owned by the German government. The stock is not traded yet though it was planned for a long time.
The German constitution (Grundgesetz §87e) rules that the government has to secure rail transport.
Public transit and regional rail traffic is paid for by the states. The government pays annual subsidies for rail infrastructure, $5.4 billion in 2015.
As the infrastructure is government owned we have open access used by more than 150 operators.Regards, Volker
Another year with two more operators achieving the impossible.
TOKYO — It may have been the most profusely regretted 20 seconds in history.
Living up to Japan’s reputation for being precise as well as contrite, a train company in Tokyo delivered a formal apology on Tuesday because one of its trains left a station just 20 seconds early.
In a country where conductors will beg forgiveness when a train is even a minute late, the Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company posted an apology on its website Tuesday for “the severe inconvenience imposed upon our customers” when the No. 5255 Tsukuba Express train left Minami-Nagareyama station in Chiba, a suburban prefecture east of Tokyo, at 9:44:20 a.m., instead of as scheduled at 9:44:40 a.m.
According to the statement, the train arrived at Minami-Nagareyama on time, at precisely 9:43:40 a.m. But when it came time to leave, the overeager crew closed the doors prematurely and pulled out of the station ahead of schedule. According to Metropolitan Intercity, no passengers missed the train or complained about the jump-start.
The effusive apology was in keeping with a culture where an ice cream company ran a television advertisement to express regret for raising the price of an ice cream bar by 10 yen last spring.
As the foreign news media began to cover the news Thursday, observers abroad expressed envy on Twitter at the trainspotting exactitude.
schlimm Buslist Just to put things into perspective here is a list of enhancements that the train operator (JREast and others in this case) to win the Midlands Franchise. That's a lot of investment cost. No wonder operators drop out.
Buslist Just to put things into perspective here is a list of enhancements that the train operator (JREast and others in this case) to win the Midlands Franchise.
That's a lot of investment cost. No wonder operators drop out.
The majority of which is underwritten by the taxpayer. Especially the rolling stock.
International passengers operators that use Kobe steel products may have quality concerns because of Kobe specification false certifications.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/business/kobe-steel-japan-trains.html?emc=eta1&_r=0
daveklepper Europe's second largest railroad station building, a ghost station, on the French - Spanish boarder, is going to re-open. Pull up the website: www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga
Europe's second largest railroad station building, a ghost station, on the French - Spanish boarder, is going to re-open.
Pull up the website: www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga
I sure hope they succeed in the resurrection. It's always sad to see a beautiful building die from neglect.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41445860
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Apppepars Network rail ( UK) is replacing some variable tension CAT with constant tension CAT ?
http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/uk-railway-news-round-up-30.html
China appears to have finished another HSR line .
http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/main-line/tracklaying-complete-on-new-line-in-northern-china.html?channel=524
BuslistJust to put things into perspective here is a list of enhancements that the train operator (JREast and others in this case) to win the Midlands Franchise.
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
Any information about the Egyptian RR passenger train that rear ended another pass train ?
schlimm Buslist Trenitalia pulls out of bidding for a U.K. franchise. It tends to reinforce my feelings that the problem with the franchises is the process and conditions. I have been trying to articulate this in my U.K. situation write up. But having worked mostly on the infrastructure side my observations on the operators may be less spot on. I'll get it finished one of these days. http://m.railjournal.com/index.php/main-line/trenitalia-pulls-out-of-south-eastern-franchise-contest.html Given the nature of GB, that sounds like another Herculean task for you. But I would like to read that if you undertake it. Is it possible operators appear to underestimate costs or some deliberately makes low-ball bids, thinking they will get some 'help' later?
Buslist Trenitalia pulls out of bidding for a U.K. franchise. It tends to reinforce my feelings that the problem with the franchises is the process and conditions. I have been trying to articulate this in my U.K. situation write up. But having worked mostly on the infrastructure side my observations on the operators may be less spot on. I'll get it finished one of these days. http://m.railjournal.com/index.php/main-line/trenitalia-pulls-out-of-south-eastern-franchise-contest.html
Trenitalia pulls out of bidding for a U.K. franchise. It tends to reinforce my feelings that the problem with the franchises is the process and conditions. I have been trying to articulate this in my U.K. situation write up. But having worked mostly on the infrastructure side my observations on the operators may be less spot on. I'll get it finished one of these days.
http://m.railjournal.com/index.php/main-line/trenitalia-pulls-out-of-south-eastern-franchise-contest.html
Given the nature of GB, that sounds like another Herculean task for you. But I would like to read that if you undertake it.
Is it possible operators appear to underestimate costs or some deliberately makes low-ball bids, thinking they will get some 'help' later?
Don't know that I've ever seen them deliberately underestimate costs. (The franchasie proposal review process ought to catch that). But they do seem to overestimate revenue that includes increases from enhancements to both infrastructure (shorter trip times) and new rolling stock. Not sure any of them got "help" in the sense we might mean it. Remember for the major franchises the usually is a payment to the govt. for the privilege of running the trains.
Just to put things into perspective here is a list of enhancements that the train operator (JREast and others in this case) to win the Midlands Franchise.
The new franchise runs from December 2017 until March 2026. ‘We will be investing nearly £1bn into the network, delivering new trains, better stations and a whole host of other benefits for passengers’, said Abellio UK Managing Director Dominic Booth. This will include:
Gotthard base tunnel passenger traffic up 30% since opening to traffic. Also freight traffic up but is restricted since other tunnel not complete.
http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/europe/strong-start-for-gotthard-base-tunnel.html?channel=537
Buslist schlimm As I was saying, maybe there is something inherent in the UK that makes rail a struggle? And the fact that SNCF was not broken up into more than 130 companies as was BR. That and its vertical disintegration has been minimal. I thought I read somewhere that the EU is not happy with them because of insufficient separation of infrastructure and operating companies. Open access seems to be almost nonexistent. Note that just now the French are preparing to contract out some local services which the Brits have been doing for about 15 years and the Germans 5-10(?). http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/regions-prepare-for-market-opening.html Working on a summary of my thoughts on the U.K. situation, will post in a day or 2.
schlimm As I was saying, maybe there is something inherent in the UK that makes rail a struggle?
As I was saying, maybe there is something inherent in the UK that makes rail a struggle?
And the fact that SNCF was not broken up into more than 130 companies as was BR. That and its vertical disintegration has been minimal. I thought I read somewhere that the EU is not happy with them because of insufficient separation of infrastructure and operating companies. Open access seems to be almost nonexistent.
Note that just now the French are preparing to contract out some local services which the Brits have been doing for about 15 years and the Germans 5-10(?).
http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/regions-prepare-for-market-opening.html
Working on a summary of my thoughts on the U.K. situation, will post in a day or 2.
I'm looking forward to it.
German private operations are not just local but quite regional in scope in some cases. There are many and most seem well run.
SNCF, too.
http://m.railjournal.com/index.php/financial/sncf-moves-into-profit-in-first-half-of-2017.html?channel=522
azrailNetwork Rail (the company that controls the tracks and infrastructure) is gov't controlled. It would have been better to split up BR back to the Big 4 railways (GWR,LMS,LNER,Southern)
"December 2013, the ONS announced that from September 2014, Network Rail will be classified as a "government body". This resulted in the company's debt of £34 billion being added to the national debt."
"Network Rail is effectively a subsidiary of the Government-controlled SRA."
VOLKER LANDWEHR Buslist Since then National has totally exited the rail scene. National Express operates commuter (regional) lines in Germany.Regards, Volker
Buslist Since then National has totally exited the rail scene.
National Express operates commuter (regional) lines in Germany.Regards, Volker
Correction, exited the U.K. rail scene with the sale of the C2C franchise.
In Europe its Germany only, with 2 active and 2 more to come on line in the future. They are also eyeing the Spanish market.
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