innsertnamehere
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Looking forward to the details, including projected travel times. Hopefully we get some tomorrow.
Apparently speeds of up to 200kph, thats high speed rail baby
The main thing is that it will allow for future track upgrades to 200 km/h without needing more rolling stock. I think it's do-able for O-M.The key words in the statement are, "up to." The Acela runs at speeds up to 150 mph (240 km/h), but only for 33.9 mi (54.6 km) of its 457 mi (735 km) route. It will be interesting to see how much of the HFR route will be rated for 200 km/h service.
The main thing is that it will allow for future track upgrades to 200 km/h without needing more rolling stock. I think it's do-able for O-M.
Devil is in the details though.... they tout 200kph but WHERE? If it's only for small sections like the NE corridor, there will be negligible improvements since most of the time it will be slow. Hopefully large sections of hundreds of km will be high speedThis is great news. 200kph operation means full grade separation in some sections. Likely means that they are currently just constructing the new tracks as non electrified lines with the speed being limited by the rolling stock. This is great because it means the higher speed operations should be possible with future electrification! My understanding is that this is both a huge upgrade right now and a path towards further massive improvements in the future!
Because things change, and today the minister said it would be faster.I don't get why anybody expects more than the travel times the Globe and Mail had a few years back.
Devil is in the details though.... they tout 200kph but WHERE? If it's only for small sections like the NE corridor, there will be negligible improvements since most of the time it will be slow. Hopefully large sections of hundreds of km will be high speed
How's it get to St-Martin Jct though - last time I took VIA to Lanoraie it was through the tunnel.St-Martin Jct (last major slow point east of Montreal) to Trois Rivieres is 82.3 miles, or 131.7 km. At 170 km/h that's 46 minutes.
How's it get to St-Martin Jct though - last time I took VIA to Lanoraie it was through the tunnel.
Something is better than nothing. But if they loose the election it won't get built.Around the mountain? Looking at the last VIA schedule to Trois-Rivieres, it was 35 minutes just from Central to St-Martin Jct, through the mountain. Meanwhile going around the mountain is adding up to 40 minutes to the Mascouche train from Central.
So 75 minutes in, and you are still trying to get out of the Montreal suburbs. Then it used to be about 3 hours from there to Gare du Palais. So 4 hours 20 minutes.. Now you can speed it up some, but at the end of the day, I think the 80 minutes from Central to St. Martin can't be made up. Compare to the less than 3 hours 15 minutes they can currently do on the south shore.