From the China Daily:
China’s largest train maker, CSR Corp Ltd, launched over the weekend its first test train that can reach speeds of up to 500 km an hour.
The six-carriage train with a tapered head is the newest member of the CRH series. It has a maximum drawing power of 22,800 kilowatts, compared with 9,600 kilowatts for the CRH380 trains now in service on the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway, which hold the world speed record of 300 km per hour.
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The world speed record is 300kph? That can’t be right.
I think that’s the average end-to-end speed on the line.
[…] largest train-maker, CSR Corp Ltd., recently unveiled a test train that travels up to 500 kilometers per hour. The service train speed record is currently held by a fellow CSR Corp Ltd. train, serving […]