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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · Apr 20

1️⃣ Thread about one of the most improbable and extraordinary railway project which 🇨🇵 ever tried to realise.

Not in Mainland 🇲🇫, not in Corsica, but a across the Med, in the Empire: 🇲🇦🇩🇿, with extensions into 🇳🇪🇸🇳🇹🇩🇧🇫.

The TRANSAHARIAN 🛤️ (project)
MEDITERRANEAN - NIGER 🛤️
(At 🚧⛏️🛠️ stage)
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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 4m

Toulon has some services skipping Marseille SC, but most of those do not run any further East.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 8m

Leider war das ursprüngliche Traum (1975), Casablanca und Makka etwa 1985 zusammen zu verbinden, unmöglich zu erfüllen.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 21m

The reason for this bouncing back of ✈️ are

- work blockades at weekends with no substitute 🚌 services

- mediocre timekeeping

- downgraded journey times as most of the 🚄 reverse at Marseille SC

- Easy Jet deeper footage in 🇫🇷

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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 29m

Only piecemeal here and there.

And whispers from guards working on the line.

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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 30m

5hrs from Paris M to Madrid Ch is doable with HSLs throughout and only 2 stops (Bordeaux SJ and Valladolid CG).

On this line you may have not just 1, but several sleeper trains

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 37m

But flying on ORY-NCE regained market shares throughout the 10s.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 58m

If you wanna assess the population of 🇫🇷 cities, you shouldn't focus on

- Municipality (=Communes) ss those are way too small

- Area of influence, as it's way too large and scattered.

Rather, you should focus on the Urban unit.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 2h

carriage by carriage so as to change couplers
(another pain in the 🍑).

It was hauled by EP-08 locomotives of PKP-IC had been fitted with SA-3.

No more screw hooks.
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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 2h

Taking about SA-3 couplers, I have an interesting example in mind.

The short-lived sleeper Kraków Gł - Kiev P which was running 20 years ago, had sleeping-cars mounted on SUW-2000 variable-gauge bogies.

In 🇵🇱 it would retain its SA-3 couplers, so as to dispense with cutting the train
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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 5h

Longer-term, a new fast by-pass (3kV, dual-track, 200-230km/h) will be needed on Santa Cruz de Mudela - Vadollano.

This was the preferred option throughout the 70s to improve railway performance on Madrid - Andalusia.

But in the mid-80s, the 🇪🇦 government had eventually preferred the NAFA
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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 6h

The issue with TGV-M is more whether it allows for satisfactory passenger evacuation in the Chunnel...

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 6h

Perhaps NS should join Eurostar group.
And having an extra Depot in Amsterdam would therefore make even more sense.

Any plan to have GBR involved with Eurostar? @garethdennis.uk

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 8h

I just can't believe that Eurostar has been losing 18 MONTHS in procuring this replacement+growth fleet.

E300 and PB(K)A fleets are ageing, there is rising demand whom cannot be met, and your competitors just mouthwater at biting into your current monopolist profits.

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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 8h

Former Socialist Soviet Republics.

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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 8h

Linha do Norte is no HSL, yet a partly upgraded and very busy conventional railway.

Evora - Elvas will be 250km/h because of 2-3 daily freighters to Sines.

Remove those and that bit csn easily be upgraded to ≥300.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 8h

Well, they SHOULD know....

If you buy trainsets beyond replacement levels, then you must know where you gonna house them and how you intend to staff those...

Is Eurostar the new bateau ivre (by Baudelaire) of European HSR?

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 8h

And what is the residual capacity left at Temple Mills, Le Landy and Forest to accommodate any trainsets in excess of the current 57?

Not much.😬😬😬

Hence my earlier proposal for an extra Depot in Amsterdam.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 8h

Perhaps Eurostar will add 20-30 optional sets to the original firm order for 50...
And those extras could include ability to run in 🇮🇹 and/or 🇪🇦 HSLs.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 8h

There might be a spare half and another half on maintenance.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 8h

1-hr headway on Paris N - London SP / Amsterdam C / Köln Hbf

2-hr headway on London SP - Amsterdam C and on PJaris N - Dortmund Hbf

30-min headway on Paris N - Bruxelles M.

Not to mention Amsterdam C - Bordeaux SJ or Barcelona S or Marseilles SC or Lyon P.
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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 8h

And even 50 trainsets isn't much.

As remaining TMST, and knackered TGV PB(K)A are in dire need of replacement.

Eurostar execs claim that there will be 17 new extra trainsets. But they're wrong.

The 7 current e300s are actually 14 200-k trainsets.

So only 10 more trainsets.

Too little for:
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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, the Hamburg Transrapid was supposed to have its station at Papestrasse.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 9h

Well, former SSRs use SA3...

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 9h

It was 4h47 via Namur, with reversal at Liège.

A bit longer via Brussels. But there was no LGV on Leuven - Ans.

If no EMUs are used, then we need some batteries to expedite shunting and (un)coupling.

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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 10h

The most famous 🇩🇪 born 🇦🇹 was planning this in Berlin with a #Breitspurbahn (3000mm).

But with 2 Stations:

- Gesundbrunnen
- Südkreuz

Not just 1.

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