Drawing fair comparisons when comparing rail world records

2025-11-30 14:00:00 +0000

This was originally presented as a Mastodon thread in November 2025

The EC plan to accelerate high-speed rail across Europe

2025-11-05 22:10:00 +0000

Today, the European Commission released its plan to accelerate high-speed rail across Europe. I haven’t read the document, but have read Jon Worth’s analysis of it. In it, Jon raises confusion over the categorisation of the various, seemingly arbitrarily-chosen connections. I decided to sit down and get them into a spreadsheet to see if I could make any more sense of them. (Not because I think I can do better than Jon at railway analysis, of course; I just like an exercise in putting train numbers into spreadsheets.)