Budapest-Warsaw high-speed railway line

[@robertab929]

HSR line should have the following path: Budapest - Nove Zamky - Bratislava - Brno - Ostrava - Katowice - Warszawa (Warsaw). Directing HSR line through Győr makes difficult to approach Bratislava from Győr without complicated and deep tunneling.

[@PtrkHrnk]

Well, that's Slovakia's problem... Nobody's preventing them from upgrading the Hungary-Nové Zámky-Bratislava railway to 200 km/h. And the HRS might have bypass Slovakia altogether, it the Slovak government didn't promise they'll do something about it. They didn't...

[@scotia9456]

Three years have passed. Any updates? I regularly travel between Budapest and Poznań. I so badly need this line.

[@matthewchang5701]

I wonder how they design such a map

[@redhongkong]

Passengers are just side dish. Cargo freight services are the main dish.

[@matthewchang5701]

That's cool

[@harisheh7001]

🙏Please,Make it a High Speed rail of 900Km/Hr.

[@utamass]

Cap

[@pinklady7184]

If this is Chinese-built, I fear this railway is a *TOFU DREG PROJECT.* Chinese are worldly renown for shoddy engineering. Previously, Chinese had built railways in Saudi Arabia. Now Saudis deeply regret their decisions. Chinese had ripped them off with inferior quality materials. Saudis have gone back to hiring companies from USA, Europe, Australia, Japan, etc.

[@rap3208]

They are the current master builder now. They used more concrete in 3 years (2011-2013) than the US did in the whole 20th century. They built more infrastructures both in China and in other countries than anyone, all that in less than 20 years. Just type "China cities" here in youtube and you would see that even their lower tier cities is a lot more beautiful than the US major cities. They are not the China of the late 70s when they are poorer than some poor african countries nor the china of the 90s when they are just copying technologies. They are now the leading edge of new technology like AI, EV, quantum computing, etc. Don't let your hate for them cloud your eyes.

[@kongming2005]

You are still living hallucination or you just listen to BS news dude. As if it will be great if the rail is to be built by American..... perhaps after 200 years it will still be under construction. You should wake up from your hallucination and get passport to travel to the other side of the world, do remember to hold your jaw, it may drop onto the floor

[@pinklady7184]

tuks kano Japanese technology lasts much longer than Chinese.

[@rap3208]

@@pinklady7184 Go away! I don't talk to ignoramuses.

[@vickoslavkovic2593]

"The Chinese are known for bad engineering". What is that western propaganda doing when people tell such lies. Funny and sad at the same time.

[@MikkaZKitka]

Its not gonna be popular. It is simply slow. the distance between Budapest and Vienna is 214km or 133 miles, if the train takes just under two hours lets say 1h 45 m Majority of the people would still choose the car which is quicker and more convenient in many ways. The train should be going all the way about 350Km/h to have a chance for the probably very high ticket price.. And I say all the time, this is the worst time to invest into rolling railway. Rolling railway is the past. Huge mistake to shovel money into it. Hungary should go for the MAGLEV option

[@BlueSky-tw6iq]

That's ridiculous. Maglev is a lot more expensive than rolling rail. High speed rail is the future, just look at countries like China, Japan and Spain.

[@rockerjim8045]

Maglev is no use for Freight which this line will use or provide capacity on existing lines.

[@aaaa7007]

@Mikka Z. Kitka You pobably don't understand high speed rail., it takes nearly 3 hours to get to Vienna by car. If MÁV could offer competitive priceing it would win. Because you have to pay for the cars maintenace, it's fuel, toll's and if quickly adds up. If it is around the same price but faster by rail a lot of peaople will switch over to highspeed rail. Yes, currently in hungary our main electric rolling stock still consists of Ganz-MÁVAG V43's but their time will eventually come, and the IC+ programme combined with this, new locos and a cometitive priceing model could win over a lot of people.

[@boomerix]

@@aaaa7007 I am already using the existing express Rail line between Budapest and Vienna, it only takes 2 hours and 40 minutes for an average price of 20€. If it is less then 30€ I would use the high speed line as well. Tho all the way to Warsaw would still be a bit far, I think I'd rather sleep in a Night Train for that. I rather sleep on a couchette for 10 hours on a 14 hour journey then sit through 6-7 hours on a high speed rail. Anyway better connectivity is always a good thing.

[@hungeralexander7648]

Are you from the U.S?