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Where are you looking for these data? The longest link in France is probably Brussels-Montpellier, which is about 850 km. Paris-Nice might be longer than that,

by seszett 11y ago

Where are you looking for these data? The longest link in France is probably Brussels-Montpellier, which is about 850 km. Paris-Nice might be longer than that, though it's very slow after Marseille. There used to be a slow Quimper-Vintimille journey that was more than 1000 km, but it's been significantly shortened since then. Your numbers show you have no conception of the distances involved in Europe. Thinking that the longest train link in France, a country that's 1000 km wide and 1000 km high, is 100 km long is completely ridiculous.

IanCal 11y ago
> Thinking that the longest train link in France, a country that's 1000 km wide and 1000 km high, is 100 km long is completely ridiculous. They do specifically mention "high speed" train lines.
- mikeash 11y ago
  So what? France has an extensive high-speed rail network which even a cursory glance would reveal if one wasn't already aware.
  - IanCal 11y ago
    People seemed to be talking rather angrily at each other without actually reading what they said. > So what? Call me old fashioned, but I think it's worth responding to what's actually been said.
    - mikeash 11y ago
      What was said up there was that the longest high-speed rail link in France is 106km long. This is obviously absurd and wrong, which even the most cursory investigation would reveal. What did I fail to read, exactly? Is it that seszett didn't explicitly specify "high speed" in that one sentence? As I said in my reply, so what? The overall point, that the 106km figure is ridiculous, stands regardless.
- seszett 11y ago
  Well I'm talking about high speed train lines, I only included Quimper-Vintimille for comparison. Even if you somehow counted only >300km/h as high-speed, then the LGV Est is a bit more than 300 km long and rated at 320 km/h. I suspect a 100 km-long high-speed line would not even be competitive against cars, except maybe in dense urban areas where car traffic is often slow.

by seszett 11y ago

IanCal 11y ago

> Thinking that the longest train link in France, a country that's 1000 km wide and 1000 km high, is 100 km long is completely ridiculous. They do specifically mention "high speed" train lines.

mikeash 11y ago
So what? France has an extensive high-speed rail network which even a cursory glance would reveal if one wasn't already aware.
- IanCal 11y ago
  People seemed to be talking rather angrily at each other without actually reading what they said. > So what? Call me old fashioned, but I think it's worth responding to what's actually been said.
  - mikeash 11y ago
    What was said up there was that the longest high-speed rail link in France is 106km long. This is obviously absurd and wrong, which even the most cursory investigation would reveal. What did I fail to read, exactly? Is it that seszett didn't explicitly specify "high speed" in that one sentence? As I said in my reply, so what? The overall point, that the 106km figure is ridiculous, stands regardless.
seszett 11y ago
Well I'm talking about high speed train lines, I only included Quimper-Vintimille for comparison. Even if you somehow counted only >300km/h as high-speed, then the LGV Est is a bit more than 300 km long and rated at 320 km/h. I suspect a 100 km-long high-speed line would not even be competitive against cars, except maybe in dense urban areas where car traffic is often slow.