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Sydney to Wollongong seems pretty close (about 70 km) for HSR in the style of the Berlin - Munich train being talked about here. The way the Spanish are doing
by inferiorhuman 8y ago
Sydney to Wollongong seems pretty close (about 70 km) for HSR in the style of the Berlin - Munich train being talked about here.
The way the Spanish are doing it (and they've got a ton of high speed track) is to roll out slower / cheaper rolling stock on the shorter lines (RENFE Avant). The longer distance routes get the faster, fancy tiling trains.
- jakecopp 8y agoDo you mean transitioning older rolling stock to short lines built to high speed spec and prioritise new trains for the long lines? Not sure if I understand correctly.
- inferiorhuman 8y agoRENFE Avant isn't older rolling stock IIRC. It's just a cheaper version of the RENFE AVE equipment. The idea is that the higher speed trains are more expensive to run and that they take a while to accelerate / decelerate. On a 70 km route the time saved by running a full-on tilting 300 kph train set is probably insignificant and not worth the cost. SF to San Jose is a similar idea. No sense in having Caltrain run HSR train sets.