Yes but does anyone want to get to Magheramorne and Larne faster?
Germany isn’t on the Tokkaido Shinkansen, last I checked.
That aside, our local commuter trains can do 90 mph on some lines. Japanese local commuter trains are restricted by law to 90 km/h which is just a bit faster than 50 mph. By law, if a Japanese conventional line has level crossings, it’s restricted further, to 40 km/h, which is equivalent to about 25 mph.
Irish trains have only ever once gone fast, and that was an incident at the Dalkey Atmospheric Railway, in which is was estimated the train did 120 mph.
For high speed rail to be built, it’ll have to be in Standard Gauge, which means a separate parallel infrastructure to our Irish Gauge mainlines, and it’ll also have to feature an entirely separate European signalling system, which is another parallel system. All of which would be costs in the tens of billions of £, let alone needing to build multiple new power stations to even be able to run the system – nuclear power would need to be considered, which is presently forbidden in Ireland. Coal power stations are also forbidden, and the final option is gas power stations, which would need to be fueled with American fracked gas, or other far less moral choices, like Mozambican gas or Gulf State gas. All of which would need to be shipped by boat.
Due to our reluctance to spend big money, and our island being… well… an island, I think we can count ourselves lucky that we even have railways – Iceland, Malta and Cyprus, the other European islands, do not have railways of any meaningful usefulness, if at all.
Iarnród Éireann has these but they aren’t very fast
You think that’s what Russian trains look like 😂
Lmao, a shinkansen in Northern Ireland/Ireland would never hit it’s high speed, the only useful line one of those would have is belfast, to dublin, to cork, and that’s it. Asides from that imagine the larne line with HSR.
Also russia have shitty soviet engines that chug along, it’d be funnier if you put spain or france there.
Funnier?
Surely a prerequisite of that would be to be funny in the first place?
I love Belfast Railways.
It’s almost as if there’s another name you could give it though…
Belfast be like, yeah we don’t want ours looking like Dildos 😂🤣😂🤣
Donegal….
Germany loves crashing theirs though so we beat them there.
And there was me thinking we were just trying to push the aerodynamic limits of a brick for “research purposes”
Feels like we are too late to this kind of advancement.
Even the most basic of government plans for infrastructure are hundreds of millions of not a couple billion
The increased cost of labor, supplies and greed when it comes to government contracts seems to make it near impossible for a nation to develop these things
Comparing global superpowers to one small part of the UK….yeah funny.
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Yes but does anyone want to get to Magheramorne and Larne faster?
Germany isn’t on the Tokkaido Shinkansen, last I checked.
That aside, our local commuter trains can do 90 mph on some lines. Japanese local commuter trains are restricted by law to 90 km/h which is just a bit faster than 50 mph. By law, if a Japanese conventional line has level crossings, it’s restricted further, to 40 km/h, which is equivalent to about 25 mph.
Irish trains have only ever once gone fast, and that was an incident at the Dalkey Atmospheric Railway, in which is was estimated the train did 120 mph.
For high speed rail to be built, it’ll have to be in Standard Gauge, which means a separate parallel infrastructure to our Irish Gauge mainlines, and it’ll also have to feature an entirely separate European signalling system, which is another parallel system. All of which would be costs in the tens of billions of £, let alone needing to build multiple new power stations to even be able to run the system – nuclear power would need to be considered, which is presently forbidden in Ireland. Coal power stations are also forbidden, and the final option is gas power stations, which would need to be fueled with American fracked gas, or other far less moral choices, like Mozambican gas or Gulf State gas. All of which would need to be shipped by boat.
Due to our reluctance to spend big money, and our island being… well… an island, I think we can count ourselves lucky that we even have railways – Iceland, Malta and Cyprus, the other European islands, do not have railways of any meaningful usefulness, if at all.
Looks can be deceiving
https://preview.redd.it/ujam286jo2tf1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8cdbe3d37154d130e46a105045b73e654d50f613
Iarnród Éireann has these but they aren’t very fast
You think that’s what Russian trains look like 😂
Lmao, a shinkansen in Northern Ireland/Ireland would never hit it’s high speed, the only useful line one of those would have is belfast, to dublin, to cork, and that’s it. Asides from that imagine the larne line with HSR.
Also russia have shitty soviet engines that chug along, it’d be funnier if you put spain or france there.
Funnier?
Surely a prerequisite of that would be to be funny in the first place?
I love Belfast Railways.
It’s almost as if there’s another name you could give it though…
Belfast be like, yeah we don’t want ours looking like Dildos 😂🤣😂🤣
Donegal….
Germany loves crashing theirs though so we beat them there.
And there was me thinking we were just trying to push the aerodynamic limits of a brick for “research purposes”
Feels like we are too late to this kind of advancement.
Even the most basic of government plans for infrastructure are hundreds of millions of not a couple billion
The increased cost of labor, supplies and greed when it comes to government contracts seems to make it near impossible for a nation to develop these things
Comparing global superpowers to one small part of the UK….yeah funny.
Belfast to Larne in 15 seconds
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