A Chinese passenger train hit a record speed of 302 miles per hour on Friday during a test run of a recently completed high speed link between Beijing and Shanghai.
It was the fastest speed recorded by an unmodified conventional commercial train. Other types of trains in other countries have travelled faster.
State television footage showed the sleek white train whipping past green farm fields in eastern China. The 824-mile-long line is set to open next year, 12 months ahead of schedule. It will cut journey times between Beijing and Shanghai from the current 10 hours to under five hours. The line is expected to carry 80 million passengers a year.
The project costs £21 billion and is part of a government effort to link many of China's cities by high-speed rail and reduce overcrowding on heavily used lines. (AtW's comment: that's like 2% of bank bailout in UK)
Source: 300mph Chinese train breaks record - Telegraph
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Oh FFS, and in this country some Tory MPs have got audacity to protest against high speed rail that happens to go via their rich mates houses, ffs - in China they'd get shot for putting petty local interests ahead of the country!
It was the fastest speed recorded by an unmodified conventional commercial train. Other types of trains in other countries have travelled faster.
State television footage showed the sleek white train whipping past green farm fields in eastern China. The 824-mile-long line is set to open next year, 12 months ahead of schedule. It will cut journey times between Beijing and Shanghai from the current 10 hours to under five hours. The line is expected to carry 80 million passengers a year.
The project costs £21 billion and is part of a government effort to link many of China's cities by high-speed rail and reduce overcrowding on heavily used lines. (AtW's comment: that's like 2% of bank bailout in UK)
Source: 300mph Chinese train breaks record - Telegraph
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Oh FFS, and in this country some Tory MPs have got audacity to protest against high speed rail that happens to go via their rich mates houses, ffs - in China they'd get shot for putting petty local interests ahead of the country!
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