Sentence examples for conventional rail from inspiring English sources

The study said that a new high-speed rail line would cost not much more than 10% more than a conventional rail line.

The chart makes the point that "conventional rail," i.e. Amtrak, makes the most sense when the distances involved are between one hundred and six hundred miles.

The chart outlines the comparative advantages of automobile, air, conventional rail, commuter rail, and high-speed rail, depending on the distance between points, and the densities of the populations at the points being connected.

The €5bn TGV Est service will overhaul conventional rail routes from Paris to over 20 cities, including Reims, Metz, Nancy, Strasbourg, Colmar and Mulhouse, from where there are connections to southern Germany and Switzerland.

Experts on Florida's traffic say something has to be done to ease crowding on the state's highways, whether it is a bullet train or a more conventional rail service like the one in New York.

That's why, when the government awarded the massive Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise (TSGN) in 2014, it was not as a conventional rail franchise, but as a management contract.

On its website, ThyssenKrupp Transrapid boasts that it "enjoys an exclusive market position" to supply key maglev components.A "moving platform" scheme proposed by Priestmangoode is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails.

Not a Hyperloop, mind you, but a conventional rail-based train – with a few tech twists.

A complex junction has been built north of St Pancras with connections to the East Coast Main Line, North London Line (for West Coast Main Line) and Midland Main Line, allowing for a wide variety of potential destinations albeit on conventional rails.

The type test conditions in the new European legislation Technical Specification for Interoperability-Conventional Rail (TSI-CR) for noise emission from interoperable rail vehicles is used as a basis.

The BART system and conventional US rail use different and incompatible rail gauges and different loading gauges.