Half a century the world has high-speed trains

It has been 50 years since the world had high-speed trains, both because it was designed as a warhead, both because of the speed of "firing".

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The world's first Shinkansen train fleet opened on October 1, 1964 in Japan

On October 1, 1964, at 6 am, the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the high-speed rail line connecting Tokyo and Osaka ended. The world's first high-speed train fleet with a round bow train made the first trip across the 513km long road within 2h30 '.

Design the latest Shinkansen with a long bow like a spaceship that runs faster than 5 minutes on this route.

Generations of old Japanese high-speed trains

The birth of the Shinkansen helped boost rail passengers in Europe and Asia by the time of the emergence of cars and aircraft threatening the survival of the train. It is also considered to be a national pride of Japan less than two decades after the Second World War.

Engineer Araki, 73 years old, drove a Shinkansen train briefly during the summer of 1967 during his studies to become a rail engineer.

In fact, Japan began to build a high-speed railway right in the war, but construction was stopped in 1943 due to running out of money. This idea was revived in the 1950s, but was caught up in concerns about cost overruns, as well as the economic efficiency of cars and airplanes.

This project had to borrow part of the capital from the World Bank (80 million USD). And every criticism turned 180 degrees into praise when the project was completed on the occasion of the October 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

The author of the article went on a Taiwan high-speed train, sometimes running at a speed of 299km / hour

The first Shinkansen has a maximum speed of 210 km / hour. Meanwhile, the fastest trains in Europe were only 160km / hour.

In Taiwan, high-speed trains (also based on Shinkansen technology) can run up to 293km / hour, sometimes faster.

Today, high-speed trains in Japan and the world can run up to 300 km / hour, even faster. In terms of average speed, China has the fastest train in the world, achieving an average speed of 284km / hour on the route between Shijiazhuang (Zhengzhou) and Zhengzhou (Zhengzhou).

France and Spain lead Europe in high-speed trains. Turkey last year became the 9th country with trains running at an average speed of 200 km / hour. In Asia, in addition to Japan and China, there are South Korea and Taiwan with high-speed trains. Surprisingly, the US has so far not had high-speed trains even though its territory is the third largest in the world. The fastest train in the US is Amtrak's Acela Express, which has an average speed of 169km / hour, but also only a short route from Baltimore (Maryland state) to Wilmington (Delaware state).

New generation high-speed train of Japan.

In the future, high-speed trains will still run faster. Applying magnetic levitation technology to use magnetic force to raise the ship to the tracks, in 2004, Shanghai (China) had a maglev train built by Germany. Can reach speeds of 430km / hour.

Japan is continuing to test a fleet of magnetic cushion trains that can reach speeds of 500km / hr. At this rate, the time to travel from Tokyo to Osaka will be more than 1 hour. Retired railway engineer Araki said: "The problem is that Japan is small. If you go too fast, you won't have time to enjoy a meal on the train!".