Why is India, which used to have the best railway in Asia, so bad now?

Because India has been developing very slowly in the decades after the 70s, and with the passage of time, the Indian railways have gradually started to deteriorate, and it is not only the railway tracks that have deteriorated, but also all their railway equipment, and the management is basically in the state of a few decades ago, so now the railways are poor. Until now, India's major trunk railways have maintained a capacity of around 120 km to 150 km per hour, and now we have long been left behind in terms of the length of the railway network and the scale of high-speed rail construction.

Because the current high-speed rail has higher requirements for the railway, but India's railway technology has not kept up, so it is so bad.

Because India now has a large population, a high traffic burden, and there is no new autonomous technology.

India's railway mileage has surpassed that of China for a long period of time.

Until the end of the 90s, China's railway mileage surpassed India's, and at present, China's railway mileage is about 10,000 kilometers, and India's is about 10,000 kilometers.

The passenger traffic of Indian railways is about the same as that of China, and the freight volume is 4 6 times less than that of China. And there are currently no high-speed railways in India. The train density of Indian railways is about twice as low as that of China, and the railway accident rate is much higher than that of China.

India is flat; It should be much easier to build a railway than it is in China.

However; In fact, India's railways are far less well built than China's.

Indian railways are much worse than China's, first of all, there are no such criss-crossing railway lines as China, and they are not developed, they mainly rely on railways. The development of railways was also slow. Not as fast as China.

India's train carrying capacity is stronger than China's, and they can usually sit on the roof of the train, while our country does not sit like this even during the Spring Festival.

India has more plains than China, so it will be easier to build railways

Play Cut, as far as they're concerned, I don't believe you'd ask such a question.

By the time the sow is on the tree, India's railways will surpass China's.

You often see in the news that a train derailed in India. This can be seen from this.

Not as good as China. However, India's private enterprises are stronger than China's, and their private enterprises are more dynamic without restrictions, while China relies on monopolizing state-owned enterprises to squeeze people's wealth.

is underdeveloped, how many times is China's light area? In addition, how much the development of China's current railway lines is.

The computer scheduler of Indian trains is slow, and train collisions are common.

Because Indian society is still very corrupt and backward, and most people's thinking is not enterprising, it is still difficult for their railways to develop greatly after a hundred years.

Because 100 years ago, India was still under British colonial rule, and Britain at that time was like the sun, and the empire that never set was the most developed country in the world. In order to better control India, the British built railways on a large scale, making India's railway system very complete, while other Asian countries, except for Japan, are either in a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, or some colonial railway systems with poor environment and difficult development cannot be compared with India. Up to now, many Asian countries, such as China, have developed rapidly, and their railway systems are becoming more and more perfect.

Although India was freed from British colonial rule, it also made it impossible for India to enjoy the technological convenience brought by the colonizers, so the infrastructure and railway construction in many places stagnated, and India's railway system lost its former glory.

Or is it because India's economy is relatively backward, and India has not made any progress in this regard, so it will be more and more backward.

Because of the heavy backlog and the high cost of relaying the tracks, there is no way for India to completely unify the railway track system today.

It seems that the tragedy of the Indian Railways today is not only related to the national character of the Indian people, but also has a lot to do with the influence of some historical accidents. Each of these struggles and changes in the history of Indian railway construction has made this industry that could have shined even more bleak

The eastern railway unexpectedly lost the railway race, resulting in the economic development of the eastern part of the country falling behind slightly, and reluctantly becoming a thorn in the side against the western region;

** The flattery of the Governor-General's hobbies has led to the breaking of the Indian Railways in the country, which has seriously affected the maximization of capacity;

The state-owned railway enterprises inherited by independent India have become supernatural departments, and they do not want to make progress and encroach on private resources.

The Indian Railways had its glory days, and it was once the largest railway network in Asia, with nearly 30,000 kilometres of railway lines in 1892, when China was just about to build a railway. As for why the Indian Railways are getting worse and worse, it starts with three accidental dragon fights.

Race off the chain.

In 1846, the British cotton textile owners wanted to attract a large amount of cotton in India, so they begged Congress to support the opening of a railroad line from the farm to the port in India, so that the cotton grown locally in the southern part of India could be shipped quickly. This is where the competition comes from: which metropolis in India can have a railway line first, and which metropolis has the possibility of making a large amount.

As two of the most important ports in India, Mumbai and Kolkata have been in a race since the beginning. However, Mumbai had a head start: Mumbai was on the west coast and Kolkata was on the east coast, so merchant ships from Mumbai to Britain could reach Britain faster without having to circumnavigate the subcontinent.

Soon, Mumbai, with the support of the Viceroy of India, began the cultivation of an experimental railway line.

The merchants of Kolkata became ants on a hot pan in a hurry. Originally, Kolkata was far from the British mainland, and if Mumbai had to build a railway line first, Kolkata would have been completely marginalized. Although, Kolkata also has its own advantages:

The Indus-Ganges Plain, where Kolkata is located, is economically developed, while Mumbai is outside the plain, with an underdeveloped economy and many changes in topography, making it difficult to build railways. Therefore, as long as Kolkata seizes the time and works hard, there is still a chance. <>

On August 25, India has been one of the countries with the world's largest and busiest railway system for more than half a century. But for the international community, the "great name" of Indian trains is not its scale, but the occurrence of accidents one after another. <>

Recently, railway accidents in India have occurred more frequently. Just today (25th) at 9:55 a.m., at least 4 carriages of a train in Mumbai, India, derailed near the Mahim Railway Station, resulting in 5 injuries. The derailment had a severe impact on local traffic.

Authorities said they would investigate the cause of the accident.

Why did India, which has the most railways in Asia, once have a reputation for being dirty and messy?

Speaking of ** cars, what may make Chinese extremely proud is China's high-speed rail. China's high-speed rail technology is mature enough to surpass the high-speed trains in Taiwan and Japan. But more than 100 years ago, in 1892, when China just planned to build a railway, India already had nearly 30,000 kilometers of railway lines, which was the most glorious moment for Indian trains.

Of course, there is a reason for this.

In 1846, British cotton textile owners wanted to buy cotton in large quantities in India, so they asked Congress to support the opening of a railroad line from the farm to the port in India, so that cotton grown in the northern hinterland of India could be shipped quickly. There are many cities in India, and the UK doesn't know which city to choose, so they came up with a way to compete, which city has a railway line first, and puts the best place there.

Other smaller cities knew they weren't good enough, so they waited for the results of the competition in Mumbai and Kolkata, two of India's most important ports. As you can imagine, since Mumbai is on the west coast and Kolkata is on the east coast, merchant ships from Mumbai to Britain can save time to circumnavigate the South Asian subcontinent and reach Britain faster. Soon, Mumbai, with the support of the Viceroy of India, began the construction of an experimental railway line.

Kolkata had already lost before he could get into the game, so he was very unwilling that if the railway line was built by Mumbai, Kolkata would be completely marginalized. The red-eyed Kolkatans thought that there was still a long time, and there might be variables in the middle, so they also began to build the railway, but unfortunately, God did not favor them, and there was a section of the line that was never approved by the **, and it took three years to get it. Because India's train technology was not yet developed at that time, the front and carriage of the train were made and packed back by the British, and God joked with them again, the packed locomotive ran the wrong way and ran to Australia, and the carriage was on the ship, and it sank magically.

The determined people of Calcutta did not give up even in this situation, but became more and more courageous, waiting for the next batch of locomotives to arrive, and at the same time began the construction of the railway. Sometimes, luck was terrible, and the unlucky Calcutta people had another accident, and while building the railroad, they were blocked by the neighboring French colonists. A small town 30 kilometres north of Calcutta was a French colony, but it was a necessary route to build a railway along the river valley.

If it does not pass through this town, Kolkata's Eastern Railway will make a big bend and pass through the jungle to the west. After a painstaking tug-of-war of negotiations, the French simply refused to allow the train to pass.

In the end, the desperate and angry Kolkata people not only lost the opportunity to own the first railway line in India, but also hated the Western Railway (built in Mumbai), resulting in the fact that the capacity of India's railways could not reach the maximum efficiency as soon as possible.

India's main importers of diesel locomotives are the United States and South Korea, which are unable to manufacture them themselves.

Let's talk about Indian pharmaceuticals first, India is a country with many global pharmaceutical giants!

Because it is possible to test new drugs in India with Indians, almost all of the world's pharmaceutical and chemical companies have companies and factories in India!

Because of India's caste system, India's high castes don't value the lives of the lower castes at all, and there is minimal risk of using Indians to test the drug!

2005 In 2012, in just seven years, European and American pharmaceutical companies involved 570,000 Indians in live clinical trials in India!

In 1984, the poison gas leak of the American chemical company that set up a factory in India caused 600,000 Indian deaths and injuries!

As an exchange for European and American pharmaceutical and chemical companies to continue to test drugs in India, acquiescing to the fact that India can have large-scale generic drugs!

In the world, only Indian pharmaceutical factories openly imitate European and American finished drugs without being held accountable, and this is where India is better than China!

As for what you said about the strong manufacturing industry in India, I don't know what you got from **!

There is almost no industry in India, and the so-called industrial manufacturing in India is assembly, importing parts from abroad and then assembling!

India is still strictly an agricultural country, with almost no industry, and handicrafts and services are relatively developed!

Most of the track gauge in India is wide gauge, i.e. 1676mm (our country adopts the standard 1435mm), but considering the vast territory of India, some mountainous areas, such as the famous Darjeeling Railway, are narrow gauge. This situation is similar to the early years when you have to go from Beijing to the estuary of Yunnan, Beijing to Kunming is the quasi-rail, Kunming get off the train and take the car to Kunming North Station, take the narrow-gauge train to the estuary.

There is no change of train back and forth due to the gauge problem as you think, unless you go to a more remote part of India, the big city is basically OK. Someone wrote a railway report earlier, and as a railway enthusiast, the writing is already good, but I don't dare to agree with the number in some places. The impression of the Indian Railways on us is that they are not reliable for the following reasons:

1. The foundation of the Indian Railways is poor.

The difference is mainly reflected in the purchase of vehicles and routes, and the former will not be repeated, all of the above. The latter is mainly reflected in the aging of railway facilities in some areas, the lack of funds for daily maintenance by railway companies, and the artificial interference of railway transportation (frolicking on the railway, grazing) and other factors. Trains running on such lines are commonplace to be late.

In terms of the current situation of the Indian Railways, a little bit of my own experience:

1.Buying some tickets was relatively tangled, I was living in Vadodara at the time, and it was quite difficult to buy tickets when I went to cities such as Delhi, and later my Indian friend taught me a way. For example, the route of a train is:

a b c d, and I can't buy "b c.""This paragraph, I switched to buying "A D" with a higher **. According to Indian colleagues, this method is also common among Indians, so to a certain extent, it makes it even more difficult to buy train tickets in India.

2.The green train still has. In the Vadodara to Ahmedabad section that I often take, green trains are still relatively common, and overselling Huo Yinhui tickets is also common.

As a result, I often couldn't find a seat, but fortunately I was a foreign girl alone, so I was often asked to sit by an Indian uncle for ......a whileBut relatively speaking, I've never had a situation where there were so many people that they had to hang on the train.

3.There is no station. The best I did during my time in India was a second-class air-conditioned sleeper, and the worst was the most ordinary, nothing to carry a sleeper or a hard seat.

Without exception, these carriages did not report to the station. It's just that Li Jian is in a sleeper with better service, and he can ask the staff in various ways. In the most ordinary hard seat, I can only look for uncles and aunts around me who seem to have better English to remind myself of ......

Another piece of advice for those who want to travel to India is that if you can sleep on a rickety bus compared to the well-known railway system, there are actually a variety of overnight buses that are more convenient means of transportation. <>