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Construction of this infrastructure has the potential to bring a whole load of poor people out of poverty. By the way after years of operation middle class would be able to easily afford high speed trains.. just as how Rajdani trains are fully booked even though it was an elitist train at start...

The Travel paradigm in countries hat have HSR is completely different to what you see as the usual pattern in India. Most high speed travel on a regular basis is business with a couple of hrs travel and a return back. More like how business flying happens in India.. HSR will bring in that...

I am aware of conical Wheels and stability https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZfikEpxO0k All stretches are not welded tracks yet.. You can easily make it out by the rythm when you travel on trains. The chunk-clunk sound is when the wheels jump the distance between the rails.. thats just few mm...

The Answer to which route is profitable is obtained by simple ticket sales statistics with additional 20% due to interst generated .. By the way Chennai -Delhi has 3 trains currently 3 Super fast and one normal..(Rajdani,Duronto, Tamilnadu Express, GT) Every day Do you really think its not...

Thats Exactly the point .. the Infrastructure is needed .. WAP maybe capable of that speed (Not sustained) Energy spent to counter airfriction and assocated losses make it inefficient at that speed . thats why the aerodynamic train sets are needed to make it efficient . Conical wheels along with...

Typically long distance High speed trains Act like multiple short distance trains.. Chennai - Delhi Line will essentially act like Delhi- Agra Agra -Bhopal Bhopal- Vijayawada Vijayawada-Chennai And vise versa Interconnecting the major metro centers is what is being envisaged making people...

From wikipedia "The maximum operating speed is 320 km/h (200 mph) (on a 387.5 km section of the Tōhoku Shinkansen). Test runs have reached 443 km/h (275 mph) for conventional rail in 1996, and up to a world record 581 km/h (361 mph) for maglev trains in 2003" Records are a diffrent story...

Bullet Trains in Japan have clocked 450+ Km/hr(on Testing) .. Operaing average is 300 ish (not including stops) .. Chinese Train system will operate on loss till it recovers the Investment(Any project will run on loss for several years on account of Depreciation of capital asset not Running...

Distances in Europe actually done support Trains let alone high speed.. The cost of trains in High naturaly airlines become a viable alternative In India High speed rails are not going to be Rs5000 thats full of crap.. Railways in India already own a lot of land in genral ROI would involve...

Actually Trains will be way more cost effective given the volume of passengers.. Europe does not have the distances that we have within one country. In an Indian context it is imparentive we have faster common man connections atleast with major population centers. having to sit in a train for 2...

The grand plan could be from Japan.. Final implimentation will still be in India and by the time the full project is complete you will see its more indian than any other means .. Further to that aspect An Average Indian Train trveller is way of an International Train traveller. this comes from...