As Spaniard I wouldn’t go that far… but yeah they are good. But not all of them 😅 specially the shorter routes. Apart from some maintenance issues, It doesn’t help that from time to time a line is down because they have stolen copper wires…
I know someone that works in the rail industry with building and maintenance.
It’s apparently very important to electrify the wire as soon as you are done with whatever you were doing. Otherwise someone will know that it’s not electrified and they will steal it. And the company/state will lose quite a lot of money in raw materials (the overhead wires are expensive as fuck), delays and further work.
One tragic fact of life is that it doesn’t really take that much to become world-class as far as trains go. The HSR network alone basically places you on the podium.
To be fair (and Im from a family of train workers, did my master thesis there), there is a lot of mismanagement and politics, lack of investment and stuff, which decrease the quality of train services. But there’s also part of the problems who are inherent to the fact of moving steel boxes safely on thousands of km, without endangering the workers either.
Incredibly based.
It helps that Spain has world-class trains and are continuously investing in expanding the network.
I’m so jealous. I wish the complete shitstain right-wingers that cancelled train investment in my company were fired. (out of a cannon into the sun)
I read about world-class and then 40 minutes late…
Delay is most of the time due to congestion. Expanding the network is the way to reduce that.
Their trains are great, but the system is confusing AF.
As Spaniard I wouldn’t go that far… but yeah they are good. But not all of them 😅 specially the shorter routes. Apart from some maintenance issues, It doesn’t help that from time to time a line is down because they have stolen copper wires…
People steal the copper wires everywhere.
I know someone that works in the rail industry with building and maintenance.
It’s apparently very important to electrify the wire as soon as you are done with whatever you were doing. Otherwise someone will know that it’s not electrified and they will steal it. And the company/state will lose quite a lot of money in raw materials (the overhead wires are expensive as fuck), delays and further work.
Why not wait for the thieves to start working and then electrify 🤷🏼♂️
That’s called extrajudicial killing, and it’s generally frowned upon
One tragic fact of life is that it doesn’t really take that much to become world-class as far as trains go. The HSR network alone basically places you on the podium.
Depends on the age of your tracks, if you have old Victorian bridges etc or aging signal systems it can be very hard indeed.
(London btw)
To be fair (and Im from a family of train workers, did my master thesis there), there is a lot of mismanagement and politics, lack of investment and stuff, which decrease the quality of train services. But there’s also part of the problems who are inherent to the fact of moving steel boxes safely on thousands of km, without endangering the workers either.
I was once running to the station in sevilla to get my train. I arrived 40 minutes late. The train departed right after I boarded.
Much love to the renfe, they waited for me :3
Why bother wasting the resources to send em to space, when a bullet suffices.