When something goes wrong at 186 mph: Inside the fast-reaction world of high-speed train drivers

Behind more than 70 million high-speed rail journeys a year lies a web of safety systems. At nearly 200 mph, even a single ...

Japan is building the world’s fastest train — but will it ever come to Europe?

The L0 Series train being developed by Japan currently is likely to reach speeds of up to 603.5kmh, making it the world’s ...
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The top 10 fastest trains in the world, ranked

The new Amtrak Acela fleet will run at a top speed of 160 mph.SAUL LOEB / AFP Amtrak launched a new, faster line of Acela trains on August 28. The NextGen Acela trains can reach a top speed of 160 mph ...
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World's fastest high-speed train blazes to 453 km/h in pre-service trials

BEIJING, 22 October (BelTA - Xinhua) - The world's fastest bullet train, the CR450, has begun a battery of pre-service trials on a high-speed line in China, clocking a single-train speed of 453 ...
Newsweek

Map Shows Route Proposed For World’s Fastest Train

The construction of what is intended to be the world’s fastest train, the Chuo Shinkansen Maglev, which is intended to link Tokyo to Nagoya, with a potential future extension to Osaka, is currently ...

‘World’s fastest train’ could cut London to Edinburgh journey to 60 minutes

Currently, the bullet train (Shinkansen) is the fastest way to travel this distance, taking around 2 hours and 30 minutes on ...
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7 bullet train journeys across China, from the Great Wall to Shangri-la

On a clear Beijing morning, I settle into my seat on board the G87 bullet train. Bound for Chengdu, we’ll make the nearly 1,200-mile journey—about the distance from New York City to Kansas City—in ...
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The top 10 fastest trains in the world, ranked

Amtrak launched a new, faster line of Acela trains on August 28. The NextGen Acela trains can reach a top speed of 160 mph, surpassing the previous fleet by 10 mph. In China, the Fuxing Hao trains ...