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Anonymous09/04/26, 07:43No.2081255
Why does China has so few Railway stations?
In total China Railways services around 5500 stations across the entire country, while only 3300 of which provides any passenger service, this include High-Speed stations.
SNCF operates around 3000 stations and DB operates around 5600. Both of which are much smaller in scale.
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Anon09/04/26, 08:03No.2081256
A huge percentage of China's rail network is greenfield construction from the last 50 years where there's very deliberate planning on where to put stations, while France's network is about as old as it gets and a lot of stations date from a time when every town the tracks passed through got a station because it was so integral to transportation at the time it was worth doing. In France you'll have stations like Nice-Riquier which no modern transit planner would ever think of building but cannot realistically be removed without enormous backlash.
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Anon09/04/26, 22:32No.2081281
because chinks think there are only two types of passenger rail: intercity HSR and urban metro
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Anon09/04/26, 22:32No.2081282
Because putting a station in every backwater town means your service becomes worthless.
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Anon09/05/26, 07:11No.2081324
they probably want to try and make the railway economically viable after pumping so much money into it
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Anon09/08/26, 14:55No.2081593
If you look at some of the older railway lines in China, especially the railway network built by the Japanese in Manchuria, majority of the stations outside of any major city has been closed.