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Do 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 co
by jakecopp 8y ago
Do 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.