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VAChina operates the world’s largest high speed rail infrastructure, supported by an equally massive network of maintenance and operations facilities. With more than 50,000 kilometres of high speed rail lines, the system has become the backbone of long distance mobility across the country.
To keep this scale running smoothly, China relies on enormous depots such as the Tianfu depot near Chengdu, spanning around 1.4 square kilometres and capable of servicing up to 90 trainsets daily. Alongside similar facilities nationwide, these depots handle storage, inspections, repairs, and rapid turnarounds for thousands of bullet trains operating every day.
These behind the scenes hubs are what make the world’s largest HSR system possible, ensuring reliability, safety, and efficiency at a scale no other country has yet matched. The real achievement is not just speed, but the industrial coordination required to sustain it.
Can any other country realistically match this scale of rail infrastructure in the next decade?
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