Why is the TGV a POS? It got third place for goodness sake.
Imagine getting beat by 1mph…
If you take in to account the size of the countries, not bad I think.
Our country(the Netherlands) is 300km long and 200 wide, a train that goos that fast needs a long track, we simply don’t have that kind of space.
Why is one of them called Fucking Hoo?
Or is my mobile screen going haywire?
Graphs like these that only take into account speed records really bother me.
First and foremost because it really discounts the potential of maglev in terms of commercial service speed (431 kph IS the commercial service speed of the Shanghai Maglev). While the team behind the TGV Record run of 500+ kph had a go with a heavily modified train (no passengers) and a modified track (almost double the voltage).
Secondly, the conditions of each record-run depicted here are vastly different.
So yes. TGV go brrrrr. However, its regular commercial speed, as well as the commercial service speeds of most conventional trains, rarely go beyond 350 kph.
Aren’t there many export variants of the ICE (velaro) that are faster than the Frecciarossa?
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Why is the TGV a POS? It got third place for goodness sake.
Imagine getting beat by 1mph…
If you take in to account the size of the countries, not bad I think.
Our country(the Netherlands) is 300km long and 200 wide, a train that goos that fast needs a long track, we simply don’t have that kind of space.
Why is one of them called Fucking Hoo?
Or is my mobile screen going haywire?
Graphs like these that only take into account speed records really bother me.
First and foremost because it really discounts the potential of maglev in terms of commercial service speed (431 kph IS the commercial service speed of the Shanghai Maglev). While the team behind the TGV Record run of 500+ kph had a go with a heavily modified train (no passengers) and a modified track (almost double the voltage).
Secondly, the conditions of each record-run depicted here are vastly different.
So yes. TGV go brrrrr. However, its regular commercial speed, as well as the commercial service speeds of most conventional trains, rarely go beyond 350 kph.
Aren’t there many export variants of the ICE (velaro) that are faster than the Frecciarossa?