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Originally Posted by Bevsta007
To travel that distance in 3 Hours yo would need to average nearly 300kph.
That's an average not a top speed so forget about stopping in Albury-Wodonga
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The French TGV averages between 270- 320km/h, Japan’s bullet trains travel at 320km/h, and in China they run at 350km/h. The Melbourne- Sydney air route is the second busiest in the world (54,000 flights) and is only going to get busier, so the potential is there. Don’t get me wrong, the cost would be astronomical and there’s smarter people than me to do the sums but in 50 years when Melbournes population is 10,000,000 or so (projections vary between 8 million and 12 million) and Sydney’s is in that ball park as well a rail link might be handy, given that there’s only so many planes we can have in the sky.
If anything, building this rail corridor would be a return to the days where we were proactive in our infrastructure development, instead of waiting 30 years after we actually need it to get around to investigating it.