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Trains are like dragons: massive, majestic, mystical and capable of quickly taking you on an exotic adventure.
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Jan 2 • 17 tweets • 8 min read
I have not watched Half as Interesting in a long time. To see them make poorly researched Wiki verbatim slop is sad. Half as Interesting's entire premise of "HKZM Bridge is useless" is wrong because he only counted cars/trucks, ignoring 80% of the bridge's traffic on buses. A😡🧵 Image Let's address the elephant in the room, ignoring most of the HKZM bridge's traffic which is carried on buses. The HKZM "golden bus" shuttles run up to every 2-5min between HK and Macau or Zhuhai. Every time I use the bridge (~once a month) there is an ocean of people and buses. Image
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Jan 1 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Last Monday (30 Dec 2024), the 23km long 14 station Shenyang Metro Line 3 Phase 1 West section opened. The line uses 6 car Type B trains. Bringing the Shenyang Metro to 187km long. Maps by MetroMan地铁通. (1/4) Image
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Image Last Monday, Shenyang Metro L3 Phase 1 West section opened. The Phase 1 West Section is mostly elevated, making Shenyang Metro no longer the world's longest fully underground metro system. The fully underground East Section is still in construction. Pics by Jennings-foto. (2/4) Image
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Dec 29, 2024 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Today, Phase 1 of Lines 7 and 8 of the Zhengzhou Metro opened. L7 is 26.8km long with 20 stations and L8 is 51.8km with 28 stations. The 11 year old Zhengzhou Metro is now 450km long. (1/4) Image
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Image More pictures of the first phase of Zhengzhou Metro Lines 7 and 8 stations which opened today. (2/4) Image
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Dec 29, 2024 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Today the CR450-AF and -BF sub-series has been officially unveiled by CRRC in Beijing. Both with a design speed of 450kph and a rated service speed of 400kph. First, third and right of fourth pics is the CR450AF second and left of fourth pics is the CR450BF. (1/5) Image
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Image Inside the new CR450 series HSTs unveiled today in Beijing. (2/5) Image
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Dec 28, 2024 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
The Shanghai Airport Link Line opened on 27 December 2024. A regional railway line between Shanghai's two airports with trains every 10-15 min. Travel time between the two airports on the line is 40 mins. A picture🧵. Pics by Akiryo秋凌. (1/6) Image
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Image The trains on the Shanghai Airport Link Line are 4 car regional trains with wireless charging, luggage racks, 2+2 seating and the works. Overall quite nice. Pics by Akiryo秋凌. (2/6) Image
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Dec 25, 2024 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Today Xi'an Metro Line 8, a monster 50km long loop line opened. The line uses 6 car fully automated type A trains. Bringing the 13 year old Xi'an metro to 394km in length. Pictures and maps by 乐天派zhz. (1/4) Image
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Image The various stations on the newly opened Xi'an Metro Line 8. Pics by 乐天派zhz. (2/4) Image
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Dec 14, 2024 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
Changtai Yangtze Bridge in🇨🇳: A highway-railway cablestayed🌉with a main span of 1,176m supported by two 352m towers, making it the tallest bridge in the🌐. A pair of 388m main span steel arch bridges flank both ends of the main bridge over the world's busiest waterway... (1/5) Image
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Image Profile of the Changtai Yangtze Bridge the tallest bridge in the world. Profile published in "Settlement analysis of the giant open caisson during the construction of the Changtai Yangtze River Bridge" by M.-W. Guo, Xuechao Dong, Zhi Yang in "Frontiers in Earth Science". (2/5) Image
Dec 2, 2024 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Suzhou Metro Line 7 Phase 1 central section opened yesterday. The fully underground crosstown urban section is 24.4km long with 21 stations. The line uses 6 car type B trains costs 180 million INT$/km. Pictures by KINJYOWAN. Picture Thread. Image
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Image Suzhou Metro Line 7 Phase 1 central section (Red) will also take over a branch line of Line 4 (Purple) The North Section (Grey) is still under construction. The whole Line 7 will be 40.6 km long with 32 stations. Map by 乐天派zhz Image
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Dec 1, 2024 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Yesterday, Zhengzhou Metro Line 6 Phase 1 Northeastern Extension opened. The extension is 26.4km long, fully underground under Zhengzhou city center with 18 stations of which 8 are interchange stations. L6 Phase 1 is estimated to cost 190 million INT$/km to build. Picture🧵... Image
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Image ...Line 6 Phase 1 was originally a short purple stubway in the suburbs with minimal use. This city center extension tripled its length and now makes it a central trunk line. The 10 year old Zhengzhou Metro is now over 370km long. Maps by MetroMan地铁通.... Image
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Nov 14, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Last month the Environmental Impact Report for Beijing Subway Line 19 Phase 2 N Extension was released. The extension is mostly underground, 24.2km long, serves 7 stations with 2 branches with a reservations for a 3rd. Line 19 is an express line supporting 120kph operations.... Image No much change in the design of the project since it's approval as part of Beijing Subway's Phase 3 expansion noted in repost. However...
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Nov 10, 2024 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
It started out 2 Fridays ago as a meme,
last Friday it became a movement (now with detractors). Apparently around 600,000-400,000 people from all over China on Friday and Saturday night (Oct 8 and 9) came to Zhengzhou and sharebiked from Zhengzhou to Kaifeng to... (a thread) ...play. It all started when 4 female college students posted on social media about biking via China's vast sharebike fleet to from Zhengzhou, a city of over 10 million ppl, to Kaifeng, a historic city of 1.75 million ppl 50km away that I recommend going:
Nov 9, 2024 • 34 tweets • 21 min read
Last week I visited the "Station Rail Voyage" a popup museum using the old Hung Hom platforms to exhibit old Hong Kong railway rolling stock for a few months. A picture thread of my experience. Image
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Image The museum requires reservations in advance so please take note and plan accordingly. Image
Nov 6, 2024 • 19 tweets • 9 min read
There's alot going on across the Pacific, over here on this side, Tokyo Metro has officially started construction on extensions to the Yurakucho and Namboku lines today. Breaking Tokyo Metro's soft moratorium on new metro projects after the completion of the Fukutoshin Line. A 🧵 Image The two extensions will add ~8km of new metro to the network and serve the Shinagawa and Koto areas. Again, this will be the 1st time in over 15 years Tokyo Metro is building new metro. The quite successful IPO of Tokyo Metro partly allowed this to happen.
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Nov 6, 2024 • 26 tweets • 10 min read
While I was in Japan, during Railway Day a "railway festival" was held at Odaiba organized by JR Group, private railways and the MILT. A thread of my experience attending. Basically the festival is a bunch of tents in a park with railway operators and railway adjacent entities across Japan to sell official merchandise, "original goods", have talks, do some advertising and generally have a grand olde time.
Oct 31, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
More importantly, the train consists for Line 3 follows the new Beijing Subway operation planning doctrine being rolled out. New BJ Subway lines will have "half" trainsets which in an ultimate configuration a pair will run linked together to form a full train. Why? A thread. In the reposted example, Line 3 trainsets are 4 cars long but will run in a 4+4 config to make use of the stations that support 8 car trains. The new logic is that many new Beijing Subway lines use Traffic Control Technology (TCT) Co. built signal systems which are pushing... Image
Oct 30, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
So apparently last week it was revealed that Taoyuan Metro, who wanted to buy new trains to supplement their existing fleet, can't procure new trains. The Invensys DTG-R signal system (which is also used on the Victoria Line) is no longer supported.... Image ...Invensys was acquired by Siemens, and Siemens told Taoyuan Metro the installed version of the DTG-R signal system on the original section of the Airport MRT is no longer supported and Siemens can't make trains...
Oct 28, 2024 • 22 tweets • 9 min read
When I was in Japan, I visited the Yamanashi Prefectural Maglev Exhibition, on a 500kph test day. The test track is first section of Japan's first maglev, the Chuo Shinkansen. A Thread with lots of videos of a Maglev blasting by. Getting there is a bit rough. There is an infrequent bus but I opted to take a JR-E limited express train to Otsuki and transfer to a local Fuji Railway train and walk thru Inaka for 30 mins. Image
Oct 27, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Yesterday major changes were made to Shenzhen Metro Line 3. A Thread.
1st Change: New trains ordered to supplement the fleet for the Line 3 Phase 4 extension and increase overall line frequency have started running.
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Image 2nd Change: New Line 3 maps showing the upcoming Line 3 Phase 4 extension implemented at all stations. Image
Oct 25, 2024 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
The problem with the TRA Taipei undergrounding project is that they blew a huge amount of money to place a surface railway underground and reuse the extra space to expand a stroad to a... extra massive stroad. Lil Thread. Taiwan in the 80s did start putting TRA tracks underground in a bid to reduce inconvenience to surface traffic. The video above is in Ximen which looked like this when the TRA mainline ran on the surface beside Zhonghua Road in the 70s. Pic by 台北市政府觀光傳播局/台北畫刊 Image
Oct 13, 2024 • 21 tweets • 8 min read
So today, after running some shopping errands I slowly made my way to try and catch a JR Chuo Rapid train equipped with green cars which debut today. Lo and behold I got one after waiting 15 mins. Small Thread of my debut bi-level Japanese green car experience. The Chuo Rapid is one of the last "mid-distance" services on the JR-E Kanto network to not have green car service (tho the Narita Line Rapid also does not) most other Mid-distance services like the Ueno-Tokyo services which have two bi level premium seat "green cars".
Oct 11, 2024 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
🧵on heading back into Tokyo, I see the transition from Inaka to the world's largest city. I got driven to Ohara to enter the Tokyo Commuter Fare Zone. My first train is a Sotobō Line 2 car E131 series that comes hourly. (Pic of 2 car E131 at Awa-Kamogawa where I ate breakfast) Image The line is mostly single track but is electrified. The two car E131 trains use "wanman" operation with one driver and have semi automatic doors that passengers have to push buttons to open and close. There is a bank of screens above the driver seat to monitor the doors.