More and more PRCs to come. Soon, you cant even find a Singaporean on the street.
Originally posted by Dragonaxe:It's possible on a steep and straight track, but then when's there a curve.... DERAILMENT.
Like this incident in Japan when the train went 1.5x the maximum speed the train could go -> Amagasaki rail crash
Let say it confirm.
For spore, I dont think it will go top speed.
For malaysia, it can built a straight railway from jb to perlis. (800km) and can go top speed.
For thailand, certain part cos need some curving railway works.
Divorce rate will also be at 431km/h.
I think we can finally declare Singapore as a province of China by 2014, time to start saving Yuans.
Originally posted by Toiletries:I think we can finally declare Singapore as a province of China by 2014, time to start saving Yuans.
If that happens, I'm moving back to Taiwan forever.
The Singapore-Kunming Rail Link (SKRL)
Runckel & Associates has followed news on the progress of The Singapore-Kunming Rail Link (SKRL) which was was first proposed by Asean in 1995. The SKRL is a flagship project of the ASEAN-Mekong Basin Development Cooperation (AMBDC). This regional railway line, spanning some 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) from Singapore to the Chinese city of Kunming, would be a very efficient and most economical mode of cross-border cargo transportation. However, the project has been hindered by a lack of funds and other technical issues in connecting the rail to major towns across the region. The project also includes constructing railway stations and related infrastructure, and has been estimated to cost US$15 billion (€12.5 billion). ASEAN hopes the link will be ready by 2015.
Recent Progress in Cambodia:
The Strait Times of Singapore reported in early 2008 that Cambodia received US$80m funding for its Thailand rail link. Cambodia will build a rail link to Thailand after it received these funds from the Asian Development Bank and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, according to Cambodia's transport minister. Work on the 48km connection between Sisophan in Cambodia and Poipet near the Thai border will be completed by 2010.
Besides the progress in funding of the Cambodia link, Malaysia also donated used rail tracks worth more than US$2 million to Cambodia for a China-Singapore link as part of regional efforts to build a railway linking Singapore to southern China, reported late last year by the Associate Press. This would also help fill in 48 kilometers (30 miles) of missing rails there.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations's Fact Sheet - Sept, 2007 reveals the SKRL feasibility study examining six alternative routes to link Singapore to Kunming, China, which all six routes have a common sector from Singapore to Bangkok via Kuala Lumpur.
Route 1: which connects Cambodia, Lao PDR, Viet Nam and China, was selected by the ASEAN Transport Ministers for its high social and economic impact. It will cost an estimated US$1.8 billion to construct. Its 5,382 km length includes the missing links from Poipet to Sisophon, and from Phnom Penh to Loc Ninh and Ho Chi Minh City, as well as the spur lines from Ho Chi Minh City to Vung Tau and from Vientiane to Vung Anh.
Routes 2 to 6 will be considered for implementation in national rail plans or other railway network projects, such as the Trans-Asian Railway.
Developments of SKRL:
It will be better if it can go to Moscow from Singapore by the bullet train :P Just imagine that !
Originally posted by mrtdude5:I don't even think this is a nice thing to dream about. There isn't a need for such a rail network, unless the trains can go as fast as planes. But we know that no one has even come close to that yet.
Boeing 747 goes about 900km/h. Bullet trains goes up to 550km/h. So it is not really that far from it.
Originally posted by sni1996:It will be better if it can go to Moscow from Singapore by the bullet train :P Just imagine that !
You might as well as connect all cities from the world with bullet trains on top of airports by plane. This is then called real globalization.
Originally posted by C751A 70049/70050:You might as well as connect all cities from the world with bullet trains on top of airports by plane. This is then called real globalization.
Then it's a good time to do some crime.
Originally posted by C751A 70049/70050:You might as well as connect all cities from the world with bullet trains on top of airports by plane. This is then called real globalization.
Maybe to London and France?
dun think its bullet train coz track gauge is different
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After Kunming. They can extend it to Hang Zhou --> Shanghai --> Guang Zhou --> Beijing
Than to Russia den to europe
Originally posted by C751A 70049/70050:Boeing 747 goes about 900km/h. Bullet trains goes up to 550km/h. So it is not really that far from it.
Let's just use the distance from Singapore to Taipei (as the crow flies) as an example: 3,239 kilometers.
At 900kph, the trip takes about 3.6 hours.
At 550kph, the trip takes about 5.8 hours.
Assuming that the trains being used travel at 480kph, the trip would take 6.7 hours.
When the technology allows for trains of some sort to travel at the same speed as an airplane, I'd love to see airplanes slowly get replaced by trains which don't burn heavily polluting airline fuel.
Those bullet train got sensor in front?
I mean if something wrong with the track in front...say..about 20 km away (due to the high speed)?, the bullet train will slow down??
Terrorists will have a hand on it.
Originally posted by i_luv_erky:After Kunming. They can extend it to Hang Zhou --> Shanghai --> Guang Zhou --> Beijing
Than to Russia den to europe
I doubt so. (Why not having a branch line towards Western China, Central Asia then Eastern Europe -> Western Europe)
Originally posted by i_luv_erky:Stations Possible
Singapore(?????)
Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)
Laos (????)
China (Kunming)
Thailand (?????)
Thailand>>Bangkok , Singapore>>Woodlands and Laos>>Vientiane
Track gauge I have seen
1435mm, 1520 mm and 1524 mm
Always Woodlands, try Sembawang. Or the section between Yio Chu Kang and Khatib where the lake is and there are a lot of trees.
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Originally posted by C830/C751B/C951 Fan:Always Woodlands, try Sembawang. Or the section between Yio Chu Kang and Khatib where the lake is and there are a lot of trees.
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What are you talking about?
Originally posted by sni1996:What are you talking about?
I think wrong thread.....something fishy....kekekeke
Originally posted by sni1996:What are you talking about?
He refers to
Thailand>>Bangkok , Singapore>>Woodlands and Laos>>Vientiane
Well, He wished the bullet train on Sembawang or Lentor (Between YCK & Khatib)
But let me point out a few points
1: Sembawang or Woodlands, they are very close to me. Well, I dont suppose such trains on the town centre of either, but instead, if it has to be Woodlands or Sembawang, then might as well on Admiralty area "away from" residential areas with MRT / bus connection. (Woodlands might just mean on checkpoint area)
2: Lentor area, or Upper Thomson for that matter, it will not be feasible because that area is very close to military camps (Mandai and others etc.). Even if I am the transport minister, I wont consider either of the 3. I still think that Tanjung Pagar railway station is the best, if not possible, then make it on Sungei Kadut area.
.......shipping is the best route.cheaper and better.....tracks are hard to build.
i suppose the person who had that idea of building a train track was drunk n has no idea what it goes into building one.
Sell the whole country to China.