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i actually don't think it's about money, it's more likely about the railways being too shit.
At least part of the melbourne-sydney route is single track, which greatly limits the amount of traffic you can have on the route. no single company is going to shell out for building new tracks, and having companies work together to fund it isn't much more likely.
The government is really the only instance with the power to decide to fix this, so the lack of rail transport generally boils down to a government actively choosing to not have rail transport.
the melb syd rail has loop de loops lmao
oh my god you're right, but only for one of the tracks sometimes?? that's so strange
so yeah, even if the tracks are in great condition they're still so squiggly that you're not going to be able to go particularly fast, like a lot of these curves are 300 meters in radius! that's going to force down speeds to below highway speed..