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    Passenger railway networks in 2020

    Posted by vladgrinch

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    1. DungeonCrawler19 on

      America is always such a shock.

      Is it due to low population density or people just don’t like trains there?

    10. thallazar on

      This makes it seem like there’s some semblance of a connected rail network on east coast Australia. There isn’t. It doesn’t even have a uniform rail gauge, over that map there are 3 different gauges that would require changes if you were to try and use them for transport.

    12. GuyfromKK on

      We do have a passenger train service in Borneo (not shown in South East Asia map), but the length is only a meagre 134km.

      And why Java’s not shown?

    13. WorkOk4177 on

      interesting how you can basically map out India and its neighbours (the 2-4 line offshoot is pakistan)

    15. Unhappy_Arugula_2154 on

      While Australia looks bad, there’s only like 5 people it’s not servicing

    17. f_cysco on

      Reading this sitting in a train from Hamburg to Munich, already slept, ate, read a book, bought something online and still have time to research something on my laptop.

      Can’t even imagine doing this in a car. 8 hours driving without doing any of that, just staring at the Autobahn and hold the lane. 8 hours..wtf

    18. Downtown-Win-9233 on

      South Asia = India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives, Bangladesh, Pakistan

      Southeast Asia = Thailand, Vietnam, Bali etc

    19. Fun-Lavishness-5155 on

      If I only knew America from this map I would’ve thought St. Louis is its capital.

    20. vergorli on

      Americans: “noooo, our land is to vast to build rails”
      meanwhile China and India and even Russia:

    25. OriharaYuzuru on

      >South East Asia

      Why India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka presented here but Indonesia and the Philippines didn’t?

    26. cobb_highway on

      Some are missing from the Australian map, particularly the V-Line tracks in regional Victoria.

    28. fatbunyip on

      Why put Australia? 

      There’s like 5 cities spread around a continent, and for like 3 of them there’s literally nothing in between for like 3000km.  Of course there’s not gonna be a lot of rail. 

      But also it’s missing a bunch. It shows just 2 lines going to Melbourne, but Victoria has almost 2000km of regional rail across the state with 5-6 main lines. 

    31. Fetz- on

      Why is China not included in this map?

      OP is Indian. No one else would include India, but leave out China on such a comparison

    32. CeraphFromCoC on

      How come Australia doesn’t build a bullet train connecting Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney?

    33. Nerf_the_cats on

      To be fair with Australia, workers there has to deal with the local infernal fauna. Imagine trying to build a railroad afraid of being ambushed by emus.

    35. Feartheezebras on

      Passenger rail is great in population dense environments. Compare density in Europe compared to America and you will realize why we have less rail. Outside of a few major metro areas, America is very rural and spread out

    38. _AcuteNewt_ on

      There’s a hell of a lot more passenger rail lines in Australia than what’s shown here. These are pretty much just the interstate lines. There’s a fuckton of regional and metro lines as well.

      Also, New Zealand is not Australia.

    39. farfrom_home on

      I look at this and make two assumptions, it barely offers any coverage to a massive percentage of the US population and that 99% of Australias population lives within 10 miles of a train line.

    41. Fit-World-3885 on

      Why don’t American and Australia put more trains through inhospitable desert? Â