I have a very VERY strong need to connect India and China. Come on, you two, we can do it.
bass_fire on
Well, basically everywhere where it’s not a jungle, mountains or desert.
Prudent-Ad-3274 on
Jap kicks ass
EquallyObese on
Whats that route connecting Dalian, China to Shandong Province? Its over water. Railway ferry or something??
Repulsive-Clock-8356 on
I am feeling proud as an Indian to see such a huge network of railway network with low prices and almost on the verge of 100% electrification.
godisnotgreat21 on
Now turn on the electrification layer and be prepared to be depressed about North America.
Cannabis-Revolution on
As someone from Edmonton: here’s an interesting fact. For a long time, the High Level Bridge was the only railway crossing of the North Saskatchewan River valley and it was incredibly important to the rail network in Canada. The provincial government building sits right next to it. Â
Any trains looking to head north of here had to cross that bridge. The city grew in its earlier years as it was effectively the St Louis of the North.Â
ExistentialCrispies on
Much of China’s rail network is useless. The country went hog wild producing high speed lines largely out of a national pride initiative and become the world leader (by far) in high speed rail, which they are. But few people are using many of those lines (relative to what they spent to create them). The produced them largely with loans to the cities they built them through with promises of high growth that never materialized, and now the cities are in massive debt because of them. Some cities can’t afford to maintain basic services because they’re paying so much rail debt.
EDIT: FFS the responses to this have been tedious. If you’ve gotten this far in the comment, be sure you didn’t miss the words “Much of” and “many of the lines” before crying at me.
Humanity_is_broken on
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iscreamsunday on
Nice. Now let’s see passenger rail networks
Confident-Mix1243 on
The ones across continents are amusingly bimodal: check out the one for Africa.
fun fact: US converted all of its passenger rail to freight rail. US moves the most freight by rail in the world. The passenger trains have always had de jure priority, but the freight trains are so long that they block the bypasses, and freight prevails through sheer volume.
ForeignExpression on
Moscow is always the easiest city in the world to identify on maps like these.
dai_panfeng on
This map is very old and not accurate in any way, I am currently sitting on a high speed train line that is not on this map
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I thought it would be bigger
I never knew there was a railway crossing Australia. That sounds like great fun.
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That tiny one on the border of British Columbia and Yukon is interesting. Wonder if it was for the gold rush.Â
population density map?
if someone would like to explore a map made for railways:
[https://www.openrailwaymap.org/](https://www.openrailwaymap.org/)
More trains. More.
Why is there no northern railway going east to west in Australia?
Love the fact that the only connection of the massive Indian+Pakistani+Bangladeshi railway network to the rest of the world is this single track slow non-electrified [line](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezand%E2%80%93Taftan_Line).
I have a very VERY strong need to connect India and China. Come on, you two, we can do it.
Well, basically everywhere where it’s not a jungle, mountains or desert.
Jap kicks ass
Whats that route connecting Dalian, China to Shandong Province? Its over water. Railway ferry or something??
I am feeling proud as an Indian to see such a huge network of railway network with low prices and almost on the verge of 100% electrification.
Now turn on the electrification layer and be prepared to be depressed about North America.
As someone from Edmonton: here’s an interesting fact. For a long time, the High Level Bridge was the only railway crossing of the North Saskatchewan River valley and it was incredibly important to the rail network in Canada. The provincial government building sits right next to it. Â
Any trains looking to head north of here had to cross that bridge. The city grew in its earlier years as it was effectively the St Louis of the North.Â
Much of China’s rail network is useless. The country went hog wild producing high speed lines largely out of a national pride initiative and become the world leader (by far) in high speed rail, which they are. But few people are using many of those lines (relative to what they spent to create them). The produced them largely with loans to the cities they built them through with promises of high growth that never materialized, and now the cities are in massive debt because of them. Some cities can’t afford to maintain basic services because they’re paying so much rail debt.
EDIT: FFS the responses to this have been tedious. If you’ve gotten this far in the comment, be sure you didn’t miss the words “Much of” and “many of the lines” before crying at me.
Old, and likely a repost
Nice. Now let’s see passenger rail networks
The ones across continents are amusingly bimodal: check out the one for Africa.
[https://rovos.com/journeys/trail-of-two-oceans/](https://rovos.com/journeys/trail-of-two-oceans/)
fun fact: US converted all of its passenger rail to freight rail. US moves the most freight by rail in the world. The passenger trains have always had de jure priority, but the freight trains are so long that they block the bypasses, and freight prevails through sheer volume.
Moscow is always the easiest city in the world to identify on maps like these.
This map is very old and not accurate in any way, I am currently sitting on a high speed train line that is not on this map