New high speed train will start running on Beijing to Shanghai track in 2011.
The world's fastest high speed train has just been unveiled in Changchun, the capital of the northeastern province of Jilin in China. While there are maglev trains that travel at higher top speeds, Chinese officials say the average operating speeds of the new "380A" will make it the fastest train in the world.
The "380A", also called He Xie, will cruise at 380 kilometers per hour (236 mph), a full 30km/hr faster than the next fastest train in China (which is currently running on three Chinese lines). The train's name comes from its top-end traveling speed, but could also be considered a play on the Airbus A380, the troubled double-decker passenger plane that has had some difficulty getting off the ground (metaphorically, not literally).
China's Ministry of Railways signed a contract to purchase 100 of these new high speed trains from Changchun Railway Vehicles Co, a division of China CNR Corp., in March.
The 380A trains will be the first trains to run on the new Beijing-Shanghai high speed track and will be able to make the trip in less than four hours, a trip that took 19 hours as recently as 10 years ago.
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Ok, so is this supposed to the the Zefiro 380 by Bombardier? Since it’s just a carriage, I can’t tell if it’s just another modified Valero or the actual Zefiro 380. China ordered 80 of the Zefiro 380 trainsets from Bombardier.
The Zefiro 380 hasn’t be made yet. It comes to China in 2012 at the earliest.
This is just the 380a train. It’s called the 380a because it can attain a safe maximum operating speed of 380km. It probably can go faster since that is the maximum SAFE operating limit.
The 380a is going to put on the Beijing-Shanghai high speed rail. That is the longest high speed rail by far. It is a very challenging engineering project. No high speed train so far can travel nonstop at such distances. How would you power it?
I would love to ride that. It must be sweet!
It’s a sad day that Chins is growing and ripping it and America has Amtrack that cost millions to Americans and is slow as balls.
Wow! Having a demonstrably false statement as the first sentence of an article does not reassure the reader of the value of continuing to read the story.
The world’s fastest train in operation is in fact the Transrapid magnetic levitation train connecting Shanghai’s Pudong airport to downtown Shanghai. It reaches a cruising speed of 269 mph, some 30 mph faster than the train featured in this article. However, the design cruising speed of the Transrapid is faster yet, at 312 mph (500kph), but the relative shortness of the current line (19 miles) limits the top speed attainable.
The Chinese have recently approved construction of a 200 km extension of this train line to Hangzhou, which will allow the Transrapid to reach its designed cruising speed. The Chinese continue to lead the way with innovation, while we in the US are still stuck with journalists and politicians who advocate 85 mph trains as “high speed.” Find out more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid
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