Timeline for Why is railway electrification in North America far less common than in Europe?
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| Oct 7, 2020 at 10:55 | comment | added | Jan | Many of the improvements to the rail systems after WWI were simple track upgrades and gentle realignments. Occasionally, completely new lines were built – but usually in times of economic boom between the wars, not because there was destroyed land available. Where railways were built, land was acquired as it usually is (mostly regular purchases, rarely evictions of missing links if negotiations failed). | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 10:53 | comment | added | Jan | Sorry: have to point out that you’re incredibly wrong about a correlation between high-speed railways and wartime destruction of Europe. Most of the European truck railways were built before the First World War when there was no catastrophic destruction to capitalise on. Modern high-speed railways (with dedicated high-speed lines) did not become a thing until decades after World War II when the economies had rebounded. Work on the TGV did not start until the late 1960’s. Even the Shinkansen plan wasn’t approved until 1958. | |
| Oct 5, 2020 at 14:24 | comment | added | gerrit | "some national impetus" — green new deal? | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 22:27 | comment | added | Dave Harris | If you have the resources, check to see when Sweden and Switzerland built their systems. It would be interesting to know what neighboring systems were doing. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 19:53 | comment | added | gerrit | The point about Europe suffering catastrophic eliminations is interesting food for thought, but then shouldn't one see a difference in those European countries that did not suffer this (like Switzerland and Sweden)? | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 19:38 | history | answered | Dave Harris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |