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Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I always forget the Acela is technically a high speed rail. It would only actually be a tiny fraction of that line. Less than 10% of the line is HSR

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ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Acela trains are the fastest in the Americas, reaching 150–160 miles per hour (240–260 km/h) (qualifying as high-speed rail), but only for approximately 40 miles (64 km) of the 457-mile (735 km) route.

That has to be the slowest high-speed rail in the world. 260km/h is not even that fast and it only reaches this speed for couple minutes.

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- Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  260 is pretty decent for HSR, lots of services are called “high speed” despite only being 200km/h (the thing is just that the services run almost the entire line at that speed)
  
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