We still have a lot of steam railway lines in U.K. which drags down our average.
Montenegro is plain wrong, it is close to 90%, in fact.
Montenegro is only electric as far as I’m aware.
At least one thing that commies did right in Poland.
Wow ussr fall was a mistake
The Baltics look very bad, but not for long. Lithuania will have electrified 30% of its railway lines by 2023 – spending 363m euros on the Kaisadorys-Klaipeda section. When Rail Baltica is completed, the percentage will rise even further.
This is misleading. This should be put into perspective e.g railway length per 100/km area.
For example if you build 80years ago a railway it might not be feasible to electrify it now.
Latvia is not 0%. Yes, we have diesel trains, but electrical as well.
Denmark, pull your shit together
One of my brothers in law works as an engineer for Deutsche Bahn. He is on the team responsible for electrifying the main Railway line along the Bavarian Czech border. It’s about 200 km of railway he said that it likely won’t be finished before the 2030s.
Update your map. Kosovo is independent!
Wait, we have non-electric railways?
Swedish electrification of all the main lines from south to north completed in 30 years (1942):
Great but if you get that electricity by burning coal. What’s the difference?
Wait, what? Really? I am very surprised
Yeah, sure.
Rub it in.
It helps our numbers that we stupidly ripped up a lot of the smaller lines in the 70s and 80s.
50,5% here
So Bulgaria is among the best in something, huh?
Ours is shameful.
We can into western Europe?
Electro..what?
Please be aware, that the percentage of electrified train tracks is neither a good or a bad sign. It is actually just the percentage of main tracks for long distance and high speed trains, because electrified tracks are really expensive. In rural areas train track are only financially possible, if they are not electrified. So achieving a really high percentage of electrified train tracks actually just means, that there is a lack of railway infrastructure in rural areas and a low percentage just means, that there are few national and international long distance trains.
If we want to compare the state of railway networks from european countries, we need to look at the percentages of fossil and electrical train transport in all traffic.
Germany only 60? I’m German and have never been on a train that isn’t fully electric
Bulgaria: Communism will bring us victory 🙂
Ireland can into Eastern Europe.
The electrified line in Dublin carries nearly 50% of the train passengers each year
The Caucasus is very impressive.
Most of the trains have electric motor anyway
Tbh I didn’t know trains on anything but electricity still existed.
Sorry Balkans, but we the Bulgarians don’t want to stay in the last century
Kinda inaccurate. The busiest passenger lines in Latvia are electrified.
Bullshitter. Latvia’s railroads are mostly electric.
A more meaningful metric is percentage of passenger trips done on electric railways. There are a lot of tiny diesel railways that pull down the average but don’t really matter for CO2 emissions as they are seldom used.
Finally, we are first in something that isn’t the amount of unvaccinated people.
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We still have a lot of steam railway lines in U.K. which drags down our average.
Montenegro is plain wrong, it is close to 90%, in fact.
Montenegro is only electric as far as I’m aware.
At least one thing that commies did right in Poland.
Wow ussr fall was a mistake
The Baltics look very bad, but not for long. Lithuania will have electrified 30% of its railway lines by 2023 – spending 363m euros on the Kaisadorys-Klaipeda section. When Rail Baltica is completed, the percentage will rise even further.
This is misleading. This should be put into perspective e.g railway length per 100/km area.
For example if you build 80years ago a railway it might not be feasible to electrify it now.
Latvia is not 0%. Yes, we have diesel trains, but electrical as well.
Denmark, pull your shit together
One of my brothers in law works as an engineer for Deutsche Bahn. He is on the team responsible for electrifying the main Railway line along the Bavarian Czech border. It’s about 200 km of railway he said that it likely won’t be finished before the 2030s.
Update your map. Kosovo is independent!
Wait, we have non-electric railways?
Swedish electrification of all the main lines from south to north completed in 30 years (1942):
https://www.filmarkivet.se/movies/klart-trelleborg-riksgransen/
Ah, Extremadura
Wait, the Vatican has a railway network?
Great map…
Great but if you get that electricity by burning coal. What’s the difference?
Wait, what? Really? I am very surprised
Yeah, sure.
Rub it in.
It helps our numbers that we stupidly ripped up a lot of the smaller lines in the 70s and 80s.
50,5% here
So Bulgaria is among the best in something, huh?
Ours is shameful.
We can into western Europe?
Electro..what?
Please be aware, that the percentage of electrified train tracks is neither a good or a bad sign. It is actually just the percentage of main tracks for long distance and high speed trains, because electrified tracks are really expensive. In rural areas train track are only financially possible, if they are not electrified. So achieving a really high percentage of electrified train tracks actually just means, that there is a lack of railway infrastructure in rural areas and a low percentage just means, that there are few national and international long distance trains.
If we want to compare the state of railway networks from european countries, we need to look at the percentages of fossil and electrical train transport in all traffic.
Germany only 60? I’m German and have never been on a train that isn’t fully electric
Bulgaria: Communism will bring us victory 🙂
Ireland can into Eastern Europe.
The electrified line in Dublin carries nearly 50% of the train passengers each year
The Caucasus is very impressive.
Most of the trains have electric motor anyway
Tbh I didn’t know trains on anything but electricity still existed.
Sorry Balkans, but we the Bulgarians don’t want to stay in the last century
Kinda inaccurate. The busiest passenger lines in Latvia are electrified.
Bullshitter. Latvia’s railroads are mostly electric.
A more meaningful metric is percentage of passenger trips done on electric railways. There are a lot of tiny diesel railways that pull down the average but don’t really matter for CO2 emissions as they are seldom used.
Finally, we are first in something that isn’t the amount of unvaccinated people.