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    Durchschnittliche Zuggeschwindigkeiten in Europa

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    Von booOfBorg

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    1. booOfBorg on

      Found this on Hatebook, without a source. Quite illustrative how different the average speed of trains is in Europe. And that CH as a rich country lags so much behind. There’s this mindset that high speed rail in CH is “too expensive”, “the country too small”, “stops too close”, “there’s no land”. Small country, small minds if you ask me.

      Modern high speed trains accelerate quickly, btw. And we can afford tunnels.

      What do you think?

      Edit: Yep, small minds. Nothing unexpected. Pile on the knee-jerk emotional downvotes! 🙂

    2. Wiechu on

      i am not buying it… Poland with 113.6? this would be only possible if a lot of regular, slow speed connections were cancelled and thus the high speed network would bring up the stats…

      oh wait…

    3. Dabraxus on

      Oh no, it’s another “why does Switzerland not have a dedicated high speed rail network??” post.. Has it already been 24 hours?

    4. la_catwalker on

      If the train has to go through tunnels and mountains, duh it’s gonna be a bit slower than on the flatland. But hey…. It’s actually faster in Switzerland than in Netherlands…

    5. RoastedRhino on

      What is “average”?
      Fast trains in Italy go faster than that, but regional trains are way slower (and you would not care so much about their speed would you?)

      Average speed of long-distance connections?

    7. M8Ir88outOf8 on

      Having a high density network with many smaller trains that have many stops mixed with high speed trains will obviously give a lower average speed than if your country only invests in a few long distance trains. So how does this graphic have anything to say?

      Speed is irrelevant, what matters is throughput.

    12. WurzelKing on

      A point that no one has brought up yet is distances. We are not a big country, that means that to get from one point to another within a reasonable timeframe is possible without having to rely on high speed trains. So why would you invest in infrastructure that is not that much more beneficial but much more costly.

    13. postmodernist1987 on

      Does this calculate the speed from actual departure time or from the planned departure time?

    14. user13376942069 on

      It would be amazing to have a high speed trains between cities like zurich and Basel… So many people do this painful commute everyday

    15. Classic-Increase938 on

      What do the countries with a a high speed have in common. France, Italy, Spain, Germany. Exactly, They are broke. Switzerland would rather not be part of it.

    16. SpiritedInflation835 on

      Did they analyze the relevant train connections? The ones that the average traveler uses several times a week?

      And looking at train speeds misses obvious other things, like train services in rural areas (where Switzerland is absolutely top).

    17. costakkk on

      So this map shows which countries have a good regional train network (slow/many stops) and which have only long distance trains (fast).

    18. joseph4th on

      Well, you know that old poem, “In Spain, the trains go faster in the plains.”

    22. Nico_Kx on

      We do everything right. It’s better to have a high frequency of connections that are punctual that just have high speed trains. We don’t want to connect the major cities with high speed, we want to connect the agglomeration and even land villages with the cities.

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