As someone who frequently uses Japan’s bullet trains, that max speed is cool, but also of limited value since trains tend to stop in places. There are some areas, moreso in china that Japan, where that might make sense, but even if your train doesn’t stop at all stations, you’re still behind the ones that do until a track split to allow passing.
Isn’t scheduling able to mitigate issues like that? It helps a lot that Shinkansens are pretty much always on time. Can’t wait for the Chuo to open eventually though.
You’ve already got various services running on the same lines basically as close together as they can, so there’s only so much wiggle room to accomdate something faster than all of them longer stops on existing services could do something, but that has other knock-on effects. Building a new rail and retrofitting every station would work, but it’s also a nightmare to both get the land and do all that development.
As someone who frequently uses Japan’s bullet trains, that max speed is cool, but also of limited value since trains tend to stop in places. There are some areas, moreso in china that Japan, where that might make sense, but even if your train doesn’t stop at all stations, you’re still behind the ones that do until a track split to allow passing.
Isn’t scheduling able to mitigate issues like that? It helps a lot that Shinkansens are pretty much always on time. Can’t wait for the Chuo to open eventually though.
You’ve already got various services running on the same lines basically as close together as they can, so there’s only so much wiggle room to accomdate something faster than all of them longer stops on existing services could do something, but that has other knock-on effects. Building a new rail and retrofitting every station would work, but it’s also a nightmare to both get the land and do all that development.