Notices tagged with trains

clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:15:47 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

Why is the official website of China's high-speed rail system called 12306? The URL is literally 12306.cn/ . Is it a pun? Transliteration? Company registration number? Postal code of their headquarters?
The obvious answer that doesn't explain anything is "they couldn't use Chinese characters at the time so they did this instead". There are other companies that use a number for ASCII name, each for their own reasons, so why this number in particular for the railway?
My Chinese-speaking person at hand has no clue. 😃
#CRH #china #trains

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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Apr-2022 02:03:00 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
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- clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
"The station’s facilities are set to complete testings and commission service in the summer of 2022."

Cool!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibiti…

#hongkong #trains #mtr

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Wim 🅾 (wimv12e@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2020 16:24:35 EST Wim 🅾

On average, a car weighs about 1.3 ton and carries 1.45 passengers, so 0.9 ton per passenger. The N700 Series #Shinkansen weighs 715 tonnes and carries 1323 passengers, so 0.5 ton per passenger. Combined with the lower rolling resistance of steel wheels on steel rail compared to car tires on tarmac (0.002 vs 0.010), the result is that an N700 Shinkansen is almost 10x more energy efficient than a typical automobile. And of course, at 320 km/h, a lot faster too.
#trains
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport

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Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2019 13:53:32 EST Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
#fi #trains #rail #speed #scandinavia
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/why_no_fast_north-south_trains/11068477
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1. Why no fast north-south trains?
  
  from Yle Uutiset
  
  Passenger traffic between Oulu and Helsinki has shot up, but the focus is still on rail services in the south.
copyright respecter (kai@ajin.la)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2019 12:54:54 EDT copyright respecter

I love seeing these Nippon-Sharyo DMUs in North America. #trains

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Ricardus (ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2019 11:26:33 EDT Ricardus

Yeah baby! It's done! The largest and most powerful steam locomotive is restored and working. Gotta go see this IRL one of these days soon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjoMBKWW0ag
#BigBoy #SteamPower #Trains #Railroad #UnionPacific

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M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2019 22:46:57 EDT M. Grégoire
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- Adam
@ink_slinger There is a long-studied proposal to build high-speed passenger rail in the Windsor-Quebec City corridor. I would be delighted to be a passenger; construction would likely put money in my pocket. But if the feds decided to spend a few billion on transport, the money would probably do more good in urban transit.
#trains #transit #construction

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M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2019 14:03:38 EST M. Grégoire
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I should add, I'm not convinced that this is always true in North America (particularly LRT vs. buses). But I'm not a transportation planner or economist either, so I have no special expertise in the economics.
#civil #engineering #trains #economics

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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 23-Feb-2019 08:42:18 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

Latest world map of the Linux-Forks #minetest full of #trains:

minetest.bananach.space/world-…

Minetest topic: forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.p…
#advtrains mod topic: forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.p…

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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 15-Dec-2018 20:52:47 EST Bob Jonkman

Why is this piece of history not getting more attention? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mDgRlfdEZg #Trains
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1. Video: Explore the 1930’s system that directs trains through Toronto’s Union Station
  
  By The Globe and Mail from YouTube
Taru Luojola (stoori@polyglot.city)'s status on Friday, 17-Aug-2018 12:17:57 EDT Taru Luojola

Reintroduction on a new instance!
I'm a pro #translator and an avid #language learner. Currently I'm fluent in FI, EN & SV. My aim is to learn NL so good that I can translate it professionally, too. Right now I'm learning ES.
Other than languages I'm interested in writing & reading #books, #bicycling, #trains and #cities.
And I'm also into #coops.

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