Qatar’s rail network is 100% electrified!? Wow, that’s a TIL moment
Perhaps just as important of a takeaway is the US has the most rail.
Switzerland has the largest fully electrified rail network
Electrifying Australia’s rail network would be insane, so much rail, so little people
The data is outdated on Wikipedia. The data for Germany is from 2017, it’s on 61% nowadays. Austria is also 75%.
This shows you just how badly Britain, inventor of rail, fucked up its network.
Where in Canada is it electrified?
Fascinating that there’s no correlation. I would have thought that shorter rails would be electrified more readily.
This has completely blown away my preconceptions about Indian railways. I was expecting top left of the chart.
Caltrain in the Bay Area is newly electrified passenger rail. So… America is not 0% but I’m sure it’s also still quite a pathetically small number.
I think if network length were divided by countries area, it would paint a better picture
It’d be interesting to see this data represented with a sense of scale – the US and China are both large countries, so electrifying lines may be more difficult in remote/rural areas, compared to, say India, which is also a large country but has a relatively higher urban density.
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Source:
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_transport_network_size (2024-11-17)
(I’ve removed countries with an electrified length less than 50km for clarity)
Tools:
– Python
– matplotlib
– adjustText
Source code:
– https://github.com/TheRaphael0000/charts/blob/master/rail_electrified_network/trainsize.ipynb
I used a logarithic scale for the Y axis. This is for readability clarity:
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale
Qatar’s rail network is 100% electrified!? Wow, that’s a TIL moment
Perhaps just as important of a takeaway is the US has the most rail.
Switzerland has the largest fully electrified rail network
Electrifying Australia’s rail network would be insane, so much rail, so little people
The data is outdated on Wikipedia. The data for Germany is from 2017, it’s on 61% nowadays. Austria is also 75%.
This shows you just how badly Britain, inventor of rail, fucked up its network.
Where in Canada is it electrified?
Fascinating that there’s no correlation. I would have thought that shorter rails would be electrified more readily.
This has completely blown away my preconceptions about Indian railways. I was expecting top left of the chart.
Caltrain in the Bay Area is newly electrified passenger rail. So… America is not 0% but I’m sure it’s also still quite a pathetically small number.
I think if network length were divided by countries area, it would paint a better picture
It’d be interesting to see this data represented with a sense of scale – the US and China are both large countries, so electrifying lines may be more difficult in remote/rural areas, compared to, say India, which is also a large country but has a relatively higher urban density.
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