Seminar/Workshop on Approaching an

European High Speed Rail Network

Ref: INFRA 43407

Basic structure of High Speed

Rail Operation
Sven Andersen
Senior Consultant for High Speed Rail

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Organization of High Speed Rail

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Principle of High Speed Rail exclusively running on High

Speed Lines

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Turnout velocity from switches leading from the main track

to the platform track
Relationship between running speed and diverging speed
Company

JR Central

JR Central

THRSC

Line

Tokyo Osaka
until 1992

Tokyo Osaka
from 1992

Taipei Kaoshiung
2007

Running speed

210 km/h

270 km/h

300 km/h

Turnout Velocity

70 km/h

70 km/h

130 km/h

Percentage from
maximum speed

33,3 %

25,9 %

43,3 %

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Examples of a quick overtaking

km
Kaohsiung d.

404

104

1406 106

408

410

110

0 07.00 07.06 07.18 07.30 07.36 08.00 08.06

Tainan

d.

32 07.17

07.34

07.53 08.17

Chiayi

d.

94 07.36

07.55

08.12 08.36

Taichung d. 180 08.00 07.52 08.19 08.16 08.36 09.00 08.52

Hsinchu

d. 274 08.28

08.46

09.04 09.28

Taoyuan

d. 303 08.40

08.58

09.16 09.40

Banciao

d. 328 08.53 08.35 09.11 08.59 09.29 09.53 09.35

Taipei

a. 336 09.00 08.42 09.18 09.06 09.36 10.00 09.42

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Overtaking with very high running speed

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Service distance on HSLs with different running speed

HSL

distance
(km)

train
category

Tokyo Osaka

515

Kodama

Osaka Hakata

554

Kaohsiung
Taipei

service
distance
(km)

commercial
speed
(km/h)

running
speed
(km/h)

efficiency =
com. speed
divided by
run. speed

32,2

129,2

270

0,48

Kodama

30,7

114,1

300

0,38

345

stopping
train

49,3

172,5

300

0,58

Wuhan
Changsa S.

347

20 trains

115,6

239,3

350

0,68

Changsa S.
Guangzhou S.

621

36 trains

155,2

251,7

350

0,72

Shanghai
Nanjing

301

38 trains with
4 intermediate stops

60,0

158,4

350

0,45

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Optimum Rolling Stock Gauge

Series N700 Shinkansen
(Large capacity)

European high-speed railways

(Small capacity)
2,904 mm (TGVPOS)

3,360 mm

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Different Speed on High Speed Lines

example I : Tokyo Shin-Aomori

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Different Speed on High Speed Lines

example II : Madrid - Barcelona

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Principle of HSR serving High Speed Lines and

Classic Lines

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Example for the busiest section of a High Speed Line

Network Rail: The core proposition for HSR in Britain

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British Goverment: proposal for the busiest section

of a West Coast HSL

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Position of a High Speed Station at the beginning of the

busiest section of a HSL

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Proposal for a High Speed Station on the main HSL (part 1)

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Proposal for a High Speed Station on the main HSL (part 2)

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Diabolo: Rail link of the Zaventem airport to the

Thalys high speed network

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Proposal I connection Airport Kiev with High Speed

Lines

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Proposal II connection Airport Kiev with High

Speed Lines

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Basic structure of High Speed Operation

Thank you for your kind attention!
Author:
Dipl.-Ing. (RWTH) Sven Andersen
Senior Consultant for High Speed Rail
Liliencronstrae 34
D 40472 Dsseldorf
Kiev 19.-20. 05.2011

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