Asia - Europe High Speed Rail

[popeter45]

No the trans-mongolian is not electrified. Not that it should be difficult, though : I don't remember having seen any tunnel on that route, and bridges are not very frequent either. Supplying electricity might be complicated, but with a 2x25 kV scheme, you don't need that much injection points. Traction becomes diesel as of Ulan-Ude in Russia, till somewhere in China ; when I did the trip, a chinese diesel loc took us all the way from the chinese border to Beijing.

yea thats why i was proposing the 250 dual as it can run on diesel on that section of the line without needing a drag or loco swap
dont think any part of the line even reaches 250 past china so no real need for a 300/400km/h EMU