China's high-speed rail vision (contains large image)

[philbl2000]

China is proposing five high-speed international railway networks that would ultimately connect the UK at one end, America at another and Singapore in the south, with China in the centre.
Recently posted on the South China Morning Post website was the following Infographic visualising these plans.

The original source is: http://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1605236/infographic-chinas-high-speed-rail-vision

 

[yorkie]

philbl2000 - Thanks for posting this, looks very interesting. Hope you don't mind but I've sent you a PM regarding making the above post more accessible and compliant with our Forum Rules, if you can action that when you get the chance that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[ian959]

Some nice pie in the sky stuff there but like so much of what the Chinese do, it lacks any significant reason for doing it. If someone could give me an economically sane reason for this international network to be built, I would love to hear it. Giving train enthusiasts long distance high speed trains to bash is not an economically sane reason

 

[higthomas]

Well perhaps if it were built using another proposed Chinese idea it would actually be useful, if a tad expensive.

 

[HSTEd]

Well 32 hours from the Lower 48 to China would probably kill the airmail market as a significant player.

And it would allow long distance coach rate pacific travel.

Also the infrastructure could be made to support a future ~1100kV HVDC connection, the technology which is now claimed to be fully developed (by ABB).