Bullshit Meter: Heuro to run
Paris - Amsterdam
trains in 2030

Rather amazing this, but to run trains you... well, you need some trains.Heuro Train thinks they will run a lot of high speed trains from Amsterdam to Paris in 2030, and have a capacity agreement with SNCF Réseau for the French part of their high speed route (see this from Treinreiziger), but they have no trains.And I can see no way they can get any by 2030 either.The render on the Heuro website looks rather like a AI slop take on an ex-DB class 406 ICE which have been available for sale second hand, but there is a reason DB got rid of these trains - because they were chronically unreliable. And, importantly, the sub-series that used to have permission to operate in France lost that authorisation.And one of the reasons the trains were so problematic were issues (such as catching fire) when running on dc electrification. What does an Amsterdam - Paris route have? Lots of dc electrification in Netherlands and Belgium!There are no other 300km/h secondhand trains available anywhere that I…