What are the trains like in your country? this one takes almost 2 hours to go 105 mi /168 km east in my state

We have one of the densest and most heavily used rail networks in Europe, because of our ridiculous population density in England.

Lots of trains from commuters up to 125mph intercity trains.
We also have a 186mph connection to the French TGV network, used by Eurostar.

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Expresses from London to Edinburgh travel 393 miles in 4hours20minutes.

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Isnt it shit due to privitazition? There were much debate here on should we privitize train services but the debatet is dead now how you guys did that

We're building more rail (mostly frieght) infrastructure for the arctic region since when the arctic sea becomes ice free most of the logistics hubs will be there. Norwegians are already building ports there

it works well but its just expensive as fuck

I want HSR in my cunt... normal lines take a day just to go anywhere and checking in at the airport are for faggots

We also have the speed record for diesel trains (148mph, but only 125mph in service) and third rail electric trains (108mph, but 100mph in service)

Yes and no. It was "privatised" but in a shitty way that actually meant private companies had to bid for 4000 page government contracts which gave them no scope for actual competition.
It was literally the worst of both worlds with private businesses making profit, and a billion pages of government regulation.

Covid meant the government had to (quietly, because they're """conserverative""") nationalise it all. From now it's just going to be run with management contracts where the government give a business a contract to run it, for a fmanagement fee that's based on service levels, with the government keeping any profit. This is how rail in London and the Thameslink franchise has worked for 15 years now and it's much better.

Here's a good explainer on why franchising is shit: youtube.com/watch?v=DlTq8DbRs4k

There's some fun with this - the ticket structure here is ridiculously complicated.
It means our season tickets and peak time tickets are expensive as fuck, but for off-peak travel with a ticket booked 8-12 weeks ahead of time you can get some of the cheapest tickets in Europe as they're up to 75% discounted. I'm talking London to Edinburgh for £20. In a lot of europe you get zero, or up to 20% discount for booking early.
So depending on the comparison you do we've got the most expensive and the cheapest tickets around.

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We are the champions of the world
youtube.com/watch?v=EOdATLzRGHc

Here's some fast trains on third rail power
youtube.com/watch?v=wIbqDa3aDP4

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I love our mini TGV
youtube.com/watch?v=vpbHiqdp68M

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We also have an ICE-based train from Germany

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And a train in the shinkansen family

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trains are just giant metal dicks on wheels

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