Bullet trains to run at 500kph by 2050
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December 10, 2010, Friday
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CHINA'S high-speed trains are expected to run at an operational speed of 500 kilometers per hour or above by 2050, an expert said in Beijing yesterday.
"We will own the technology to operate trains at 500kph by 2050," Zhang Shuguang, deputy chief engineer of the Railway Ministry, said at the seventh World Congress on High-Speed Rail.
Zhang used his own experience on a train during a test run on the Shanghai-Beijing high-speed railway to prove his argument. During the run a week ago, a CRH-380A train set a world speed record of 486.1kph.
"The interaction between wheel and track did not increase obviously as speed picked up," Zhang said. "When it reached 450kph, I felt even better than at 400 kph. In 40 years, we will reach the goal of 500kph."
"We will own the technology to operate trains at 500kph by 2050," Zhang Shuguang, deputy chief engineer of the Railway Ministry, said at the seventh World Congress on High-Speed Rail.
Zhang used his own experience on a train during a test run on the Shanghai-Beijing high-speed railway to prove his argument. During the run a week ago, a CRH-380A train set a world speed record of 486.1kph.
"The interaction between wheel and track did not increase obviously as speed picked up," Zhang said. "When it reached 450kph, I felt even better than at 400 kph. In 40 years, we will reach the goal of 500kph."
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