>>1321970What the fuck are you on about?
The point of HSR is to provide fast train journeys from A to B with as few stops along the way, so that journey times can be kept to as low as a few hours.
HSR that stops at intermediate stops just becomes higher speed rail, and a lot of countries already do this. Germany does this with already with a Regional Express from Nuremberg to Munich, which gets up to about 230 km/h, but the train stops at far more intermediate stops than an ICE doing the same journey which can do that stretch at a top speed of 300 km/h, because the train doesn't need to stop at Ingolstadt.
The Shinkansen is built to a very different kind of thought process. The idea was rapid and frequent services, much like a metro, which connect urban areas. European HSR on the other hand is much more of a long distance intercity system which aims to connect major cities with each other, with the demand being between those areas.
HSR actually benefits from large, long stretches of abolutely nothing, because then the train can get up to top speed, and maintain top speed for as long as it can. The Eurostar, one of the most successful HSR systems in Europe, connects London with Paris, Brussels and now Amsterdam. With the exception of Lille and occational stops at Ashford, between London and Paris, there is absolutely nothing to stop at in England, naturally nothing to stop for in the Eurotunnel, and nothing but empty fields to pass on the way between the Eurotunnel and Lille. After Lille, it's onto the LGV Nord which just blasts its way through the French countryside before reaching Paris.
For the trains to Brussels, it's basically the same, only instead of going onto the LGV Nord to Paris, it's branching off to the HSL-1 which then takes the Eurostar through the empty Belgian countryside to Brussels.
