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[-] Taldan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week 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

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 9 points 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.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 hours 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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