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There's hardly a connection in Europe which does 4600 km in 12 hours (maybe China has those?), let alone a sleeping one. I doubt if European countries would eve
by burntoutfire 5y ago
There's hardly a connection in Europe which does 4600 km in 12 hours (maybe China has those?), let alone a sleeping one. I doubt if European countries would ever build a super-fast 4600 km line which goes mostly through farmland, deserts and desolate mountains. China has one (to Tibet), but that's mostly for political reasons.
- mytailorisrich 5y agoIn China, Beijing to Kashgar is about 3,500km but there isn't any high speed train on that line (yet?) One important aspect is that China needs capacity: It has a very large population and also has two peak periods during which literally hundreds of millions of people want to travel during the same week. I think they've concluded that planes alone are never going to handle that demand and that trains offer a much larger capacity.