Talk:List of high-speed railway lines
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Opening date
Hello Owennson. For the Opening date, I recommand to only put the year (not the full date), for the reasons :
- be more light, and avoid a too rich table
- avoid the US date format, that is not used elsewhere
- the opening date is not still well defined (opening for test, inauguration, opening in commercial service, etc).
- make the column sortable
Regards, --FlyAkwa (talk) 10:19, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
- OK. However, this is not my talk page, "Hi Owennson" seems to be too odd. Sorry for being so serious though.--Owennson (talk) 13:30, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
Merger_proposal
I propose to merge High-speed rail by country and List of high-speed rail lines.
The old page High-speed rail by country is now quasi-empty, while its content has been displaced in a new page, Planned_high-speed_rail_by_country, months ago.
Indeed, the High-speed rail by country page has never own the list of high-speed lines, but only some planed high-speed lines, that are now in the appropriate page.
The new page page that has just been created, List of high-speed rail lines, contains what the "High-speed rail by country" should have contained.
I propose to only keep the List of high-speed rail lines, equivalent of the List of high-speed trains, and to copy the first table of High-speed rail by country on top of the List of high-speed rail lines.
--FlyAkwa (talk) 10:43, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Upgraded lines
Why does the article count "upgraded" lines in some countries but not others? bobrayner (talk) 23:43, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
- We look at the maximum upgraded speed. If it exceeds or reach 200 km/h, then it would count. However, some countries like Japan, the so-called "upgraded lines" are basically meaningless - as you said, not high-speed at all.--Owennson (talk) 08:10, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Add a column for manufacturer? (and/or country of manufacturer?)
I think many people would like to know which countries are the major producers of high-speed trains. And which firms. Bombardier, Siemens, ThyssenKrupp, CSR Qingdao Sifang, Alstom, Patentes Talgo, Kawasaki, Hitachi, etc. Which countries export the most high-speed trains (in dollar terms)? Thank you. Benefac (talk) 03:55, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
- This page is about high-speed lines, that are independent of the rolling stock (ie German Siemens ICE 3 runs on French lines) : please see List of high-speed trains and High-speed rail. --FlyAkwa (talk) 22:24, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
- In which case: Why don't we mention who built the infrastructure? It doesn't appear by government decree. bobrayner (talk) 14:42, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
US high speed tracks
in the chart of high speed tracks per country (in the Overview section), the US is described as having "No dedicated lines" and has a value of 0 km total. Now the chart seems to state high speed track, I don't think those two are interchangeable. If high speed track is defined as track suitable for speeds exceeding 200 km/h and there are US trains exceeding that speed (Acela), it seems obvious that there must be some high speed track within the US. I don't have any sources about the amount of existing high speed track so I can't correct it, but I'd be inclined to just remove the US entry as long as no information has been found. As I understand it, stating a value of 0 isn't just misleading, if my above reasoning is correct, it would be wrong.