Posted 09.29.2010 at 12:55 pm
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Chinese Bullet Train In Shanghai
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China, already outpacing the U.S., Japan and many European countries in the expansion of their railway system, has begun testing an even faster high-speed train, clocking in at 258.86 miles per hour during a trial run on Tuesday.
The new train will operate between Shanghai and Hangzhou, the capital of East China’s Zhejiang province, and is expected to start regular service next month October.
Although China has the most high-speed railway lines in the world, covering over 4,300 miles, the response to the high-speed train, particularly on the Shanghai to Hangzhou route, has been lukewarm, owing in part to fares almost twice the cost of traditional trains and the complaint that frequent stops negate the benefit of moving quickly between them.
Hopefully cranking the speed will make it more agreeable to Chinese commuters, though the outlook might be more grim for China's fauna.
[IB Times]
CORRECTION: The IB Times has printed a correction to their original report that China's new train set a world speed record. The high-speed train record set in April 2007 by the French TGV at 357 mph still stands.
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This info is totaly false. Alstom got the speed record since 2007 with 574,8 km/h (357,24 mph) with a TGV. Shangaï Bullet is 100 mph under the record !
@Luk
You're right that the TGV has the world speed record for HSR. However, that's just that, a speed record; they normally don't go over 320 kph on conventional tracks. The Shanghai Bullet is the first HSR to go 350 kph on a commercial route.
Source: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV#Rolling_stock
Not to ruin anyone dream or anything. But this is a utterly false article, as the current speed record for a tradional wheeled train is held by the TGV at 574.8 km/h (357.16 m/h for reference). Now this also depends on whether you are considering average commercial running speed, or fastest speed ever attained (which would be the TGV). Please let me know if I am wrong, and here is the video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8skXT5NQzCg
This article addresses the world record for high-speed train travel, not conventional rail travel. The record holder for conventional rail travel is indeed the French TGV, which, as vincent.gurle and Luk pointed out, clocked in at 357 mph. Apologies that this was unclear.
WOOO! Ima buy tickets just to go for a ride, screw lagoon xD