Chinese Rail Transport Appreciation & News
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1 hour of time spent less on the train means 1 hour more that can be spent on doing many other things.
Being able to better plan for catching a flight at Guangzhou Baiyun, for example.
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And if the Guangzhou-Zhanjiang route has even 1/10th the traffic of the Beijing-Shanghai route, you're looking at easily 20million man hours saved a year. Stuff I guess anti-China posters don't care about while they whine about why China is out-producing/researching them.
Also consider the strategic value of Zhanjiang. Improved connections to Zhanjiang surely has value that won't be quantifiable in monetary terms.
Also consider the strategic value of Zhanjiang. Improved connections to Zhanjiang surely has value that won't be quantifiable in monetary terms.
1.5 hr is in the same range as the Tri-State area. New York - Jersey is the same transit time. There's plenty of people who go to their 9-5 jobs that way.
The current line will be mostly dedicated to slow moving cargo trains. It's not often mentioned that the main economic benefit of building the Chinese high speed passenger train network is actually from increasing the cargo carrying capacity of the Chinese rail network, and reducing passenger travel times is just a very nice bonus.
Mixing fast moving passenger trains and slow moving cargo trains on the same rail line plays havoc with train scheduling and greatly reduces capacity. Railroads are far more efficiently utilized when all trains on the same line move at similar speeds. Having a dedicated high speed passenger line and a dedicated low speed cargo line is much much better than having 2 mixed use lines.
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That makes it a 3 hours round trip instead of 5. So that journey can potentially become a day trip vs an overnight trip.
Bombardier has a terrible track record. So bad that the company went belly up and was sold to Alstom.
A CR200J diesel locomotive being transported.
Leading cars of the CR400AF-Z being delivered to Guangzhou Railway Polytechnic for training purposes.
More information regarding the CR250J/CR220J: it will also have a dedicated freight variant with refrigerated cars for fresh produce and frozen goods along with regular cars for small packages.
Leading cars of the CR400AF-Z being delivered to Guangzhou Railway Polytechnic for training purposes.
More information regarding the CR250J/CR220J: it will also have a dedicated freight variant with refrigerated cars for fresh produce and frozen goods along with regular cars for small packages.