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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Aug 14 13:30:50 2019, in response to Re: Amtrak changes-LD Trains, posted by AlM on Tue Aug 13 16:39:54 2019. Berlin to London is 1100 km. Paris to Vienna is 1200. Paris to Rome is 1400.To be honest, those are generally seen as "aviation" markets in Europe versus actual high speed markets as those services require at minimum two to three services to work out. IIRC, they're doable in one day, but it can sometimes be expensive and take most of one's day. The big difference between the US and Europe is that what Europeans would call a secondary city, Americans call "dumpy place not worthy of even basic train service". Look at everybody crying about serving Fresno on California's network while France's first high speed line connected a city of the same size. Larger European countries would have built some level of high speed rail between say, Chicago and St Louis for example, but in America, we think of St Louis as a terrible place that isn't deserving of a railway. FWIW, Madrid-Barcelona is roughly the same length as LA-SF, IIRC. |
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