Various kinds of high-speed railroads in the world such as Shinkansen, Japan TGV, ICE, Eurostar etc.

There are high speed railroads running people carrying people over 300 km / h in the world, but considering from the total extension of the whole railway network, a small amount of high speed railroads and so on. Actually, there are not too many business operators.

So, I tried to summarize some of the high - speed railways in the world.

Details are as below.
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◆Bullet train

ByCaribb

The idea of ​​the Shinkansen originates in "Bullet Train Plan" invented by the Ministry of Railways in 1939. Because many Japanese railroads chose a narrow gauge (gauge 1067 mm) in terms of cost, it was hard to realize high speed driving, but as it became necessary to strengthen transportation power in the Manchuria Incident and the Japan - China War etc, It was planned to construct a new line connecting Shimonoseki with standard gauge (track 1435 mm). Construction was advanced through the prewar and the war and was interrupted due to the worsening of the war situation but "Shinkansen construction" was decided due to an increase in transportation demand after the war, in line with the Tokyo Olympic Games opening the Tokaido Shinkansen in 1964. At the beginning, sales operation was 210 km / h, and thereafter there was also improvement in vehicle performance, etc. Currently we are driving at maximum 300 km / h on the Sanyo Shinkansen.

Besides, before the opening of the Tokaido Shinkansen, the concept of a linear motor car (magnetically levitated railroad) was planned, and research was conducted to connect between Tokyo and Osaka in one hour. In 1987 MLU 001 was a manned person and issued a record of 400 km / h. After that, the experiment also progressed, MLX01 of 3-car train recorded the maximum speed 581 km / h on the experiment line of the linear motor car in Yamanashi Prefecture on December 2, 2003. This number has been certified as Guinness, is now the highest speed record of the high-speed rail ever.

◆TGV

ByMattingham

When the construction of the Tokaido Shinkansen started in Japan, a high speed railway TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) was invented in France. Unlike the Shinkansen, the LGV Southeast Line (Paris-Lyon) opened in 1981 in the form of running an existing line network in urban areas and a private line made for high speed driving in the suburbs, the maximum speed 260 km / h We started sales at. In 1990, I set the world fastest record with iron wheel type of 515.3 km / h in running test. This record was made in 2007TGV himself replaced it (574.8 km / h).

◆ICE

ByDiorama Sky

In 1968 a limited express train bearing the name of "Intercity" connecting the cities in Germany (West Germany) appeared. Starting in 1977, 200km / h operation started, and due to the 1979 diamond revision, it became a pattern diamond which runs one hour in the main route, and not only the first-class car but also the second-class car became connected, It continued to expand even after the 1980s. This inter city became "ICE (Intercity-Express)" as the high-speed new line opened in 1991 after the reunification of Germany.

ICE operates at a maximum speed of 300 km / h between Cologne and Frankfurt Airport, and also operates 160 to 250 km / h in the conventional line improvement section, contributing to inter-city transport in Germany.

◆AVE

ByDewet

AVE is a Spanish National Railway high-speed railway system, the abbreviation for "Alta Velocidad Española" which means "high speed in Spain", and also means "bird" in Spanish. In 1992, Madrid - Sevilla first opened, then extended, and in 2008 Madrid and Barcelona were tied. The maximum speed is 300 km / h, and the time required between Madrid and Barcelona has been shortened to 1/3 of the previous time.

◆Eurostar

ByAndrew HA.

Eurostar is connecting London, Paris and Brussels through the Channel Channel tunnel. The base technology was TGV, the maximum speed was 300 km / h. It started in 1994, it seems that London and Brussels are the fastest one hour 51 minutes, London - Paris can move in the fastest 2 hours 15 minutes, depriving passenger share from aircraft.

◆Trans Rapid

ByThewamphyri

Central Shinkansen(Linear Central Shinkansen) used a superconducting electromagnetJR Electric MaglevAlthough it is adopting, it is the transrup with the usual electromagnet that can be introduced at a lower cost than this. Research was advanced in Germany, and the general test drive was carried out at the International Transportation Exposition (IVA 79) in 1979. It was adopted as an access railway in Shanghai Pudong International Airport in 2003 and it was introduced into commercial operation, but in 2006, it caused an accident to bring out 23 people dead and 11 seriously injured on the Emsland experimental line, and in 2008 the German An announcement of the abandonment of the route construction was made from the transportation and construction ministers.

◆Korea High Speed ​​Railway (KTX)

ByJaako

KTX which connects Busan to Seoul was provisionally opened between Seoul and Daegu in 2004, and East Daegu - Busan was connected in 2010, and it was completely opened. TGV technology is introduced, its maximum speed is 305 km / h. It seems that 350 km / h is possible on the design.

◆Taiwan High Speed ​​Railway (THSR)

ByArthur Chapman

High-speed railway connecting Taiwan's largest city and Taipei with Kaohsiung in southern part of Taiwan opened in January 2007. It is also called "Taiwan Shinkansen" in the case where Japan's Shinkansen technology was first exported and introduced locally. At the time of planning, it was a competition between TGV (France) & ICE (Germany) and Shinkansen (Japan), initially the European Union was advantageously proceeding from the cost aspect, but the Japanese side took over by the Taiwan Great Earthquake that occurred in February 1999 There is a history that it turned over. The maximum speed of this Taiwan Shinkansen is 300 km / h. It took 90 minutes to connect between Taipei and Kaohsiung, which took 4 hours.

◆ China High Speed ​​Railway

ByThomasYung (busy)

As the 6th railway speeding up in China, high-speed train service has been started on the trunk line since 2007. Among them, a new type vehicle called CRH type which introduced overseas technology contributes to the speed improvement of passenger trains. Among themCRH type 2It is operated in Tohoku Shinkansen etc.E2 series 1000 series trainIt is based on. We recorded 486 km / h during trial operation, but it seems that China National Railways hopes to operate at 502 km / h.