Comments by "Sedna063" (@Sedna063) on "German ICE Train - High Speed On Rails | Full Documentary" video.

  1. Right now Britain has 1 line from Dover - London. Germany has several projects working for several decades with more to built. Ah, British arrogance..... How I don't miss it.
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  2. China is several times larger and didn‘t have an extensive rail network before, hence by the time they finally had the money for rail expansion, they could buy into the latest technology, HSR
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  3. That was almost 22 years ago. By now they don't have to recover anything. Does Air France have to recover trust after their bad pilot training killed AF447?
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  4. China got them already and they run them faster.
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  5. Maybe speed and punctuality but not comfort and price. Shinkansen is ridiculously expensive if you don’t book months in advance.
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  6. It is faster and runs on its own tracks. But the comfort is better in ICE. And Shinkansen ist very expensive if you don't buy your ticket months earlier.
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  7. The big problems were the Brits that they never entered Schengen.
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  8.  Resmi Anoop  The Autobahn is rather comfortable. And safer at that.
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  9. So we should let them starve? As for school, best they learn something productively so they can have a better job and develop their own countries.
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  10.  @keiming2277  Yes, HS2 will be completely new but the problem is that current British rail stock isn't. Many operate with a much smaller clearance profile (?) and they want HS2 to operate both and the HS2 trains to operate the older British rail networks too. Thats why this is a problem. Britain has a really outdated network.
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  11. Lol....
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  12. Thing is, during the 90s when HSR took off, we had to spend a lot of money on East Germany to get it up and going. So obviously we couldn’t really invest much in West Germany. This changes now. Between Stuttgart and Munich there will be a lot of work done. Right now they built Stuttgart 21 which is a completely new concept. The old station will be demolished and the entire rail will be moved under ground. They will dig 60 kilometers of tunnel to speed up trains in Stuttgart. They are building the third longest tunnel in Germany to connect it to the currently constructed HSR Wendlingen - Ulm. It will cut travel times by half to just 27 minutes between Stuttgart and Ulm Hauptbahnhof. It isn’t true high speed (250 kph) because the tracks have to climb several hundred meters so it is very steep. Hardly any train would be able for those gradients to be faster. Between Ulm and Augsburg, there is a proposal to built a 300 kph section but this is just an idea. Other new projects include Gelnhausen Fulda and Frankfurt Mannheim, both are happening. More ideas are Hamm - Hannover. The biggest problem in Germany is that it is full of mountain ranges, making construction very costly
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  13.  @PrimiusLovin  Some priorities but then Spain spend a ton of money and they have indebted themselves for their network. And apparently, they have the least efficient network of them all.
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  14. That is their certified speed.
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  15.  @fetchstixRHD  The ICE 3 can reach 330 certified. The ICE 2 and 1 can reach 280. ICE 4 is only 250 but should be recertified for 265.
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  16. I think they are quite ok
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  17. Pf lol
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  18. And then they default on their loans and we have sold them trains without getting anything back.
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  19.  @thetycoon1947  Siemens gotta concentrate on other markets instead trying to serve directly 8000 kilometers away. What did China sell you? The CRH3 is a Siemens.
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  20.  @gjwagner1856  No idea given I am not British.
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  21. With Trump, you are without a driver but someone who hangs around the telephone and annoys all the passengers while ignoring the cliff.
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  22. Depends very much what time you board them.
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  23. I think they would likely use the Velaro platform from Siemens. The thing is, the other parts of British rail could not accomodate standard European / Asian models.
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  24.  @keiming2277  They are but they want the new rolling stock to be able to run on existing lines too. And that is kinda a problem.
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  25.  @hanisrosli5484  yeah. A Shinkansen can cost up to 400€ whereas an ICE ticket retour costs me 100 Euros.
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  26.  @j2m3_raiden5  Plus nobody really invested into them. Privatisation went too far. Existential infrastructure should be a federal responsibility to provide the best service, not profit.
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  27.  Serkan Çakıroğlu  Took the wrong key. Obviously it is 20 years and not 30. Sorry about that.
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  28. Didn't you guys have a project a few years ago for a high speed rail?
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  29.  Resmi Anoop  What do you mean with "eligible"? Marshall Plan contributed comparatively little. In fact, the beginning of the Korean war and the rebuildning at home saw most of the growth, not the 1.4 billion dollars.
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  30. It would take an immense amount of money to completely replace all ralway tracks with a technology that largely offers no bonus and has severe problems with crossings and steerings.
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  31. True but at the time they ordered, they didn’t need the extra speed
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  32. The driver needs to see.
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  33. K-Town?
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  34.  @gsmd770  I might be too young for this. In my time Kaiserslautern is irrelevant in football and economy. The thing is, how big is Kaiserslautern? 100k inhabitants on the periphery of Germany does not really warrant a speedy high speed rail connection. Between Berlin and Kaiserslautern are however a lot of larger cities that would be connected by HSR. I assume you are an American army member? Anyway, since 2016 or so, between Berlin and Frankfurt you can use parts of VDE 8. Including a stretch for 300 km/h from Leipzig / Halle to Erfurt. Thuringian Bahn is slow to travel though but plans to speed it up are finalised now. Frankfurt to Kaiserslautern. Alternatively via Hannover but that is really a pain.
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