DaveAgain wrote:allf100 wrote:Re: high-speed railHello,
Can I replace
'high-speed rail' with
'high-speed train' in the quoted which is from a report of CNN?
Thank you!
Genome sequencing of the virus found that it belongs to the same transmission chain as the Tianjin outbreak, according to Henan health authorities. A university student who returned to Anyang from Tianjin on December 28 is believed to have brought back the virus -- suggesting the variant has already been spreading in Tianjin for nearly two weeks, at the least.
That is particularly worrying news to officials in Beijing, which is fewer than 30 minutes away from Tianjin by high-speed rail.
source: CNN
Yes.
I would argue that rather than "Yes", it is actually "It depends". You can't replace it generically across all sentences, although in this example it is fine. If you are specifically speaking about the actual physical train and carriages, then you must use high-speed train, conversely if you are speaking only of the link between the two cities you should use high-speed rail.
For example, in this sentence we are only speaking about the link between two cities. "The high-speed rail between Paris and Grenoble will be discontinued for the next 5 months while maintenance workers replace faulty stress anchors."
So to the OP, remember that while in the specific example you asked about it is OK to use high-speed train, that isn't always the case, although generally the two terms are interchangeable.