China on Saturday launched what it described as the world’s fastest train service covering a distance of 1068 kilometers at the average speed of 350 kilometers an hour. The distance between Wuhan in central China and Guangzhou in the country’s south was covered by the high peed train in two hours forty five minutes.
The new service will cut the travel time between these cities by more than six hours. The train reached a maximum speed of 394.2 kilometers per hour during trail runs that begun on December 9.
The commercial operation was launched y with two trains covering the distance while passing through 20 different cities along the route.
Sources said that the high speed line will use technology developed in co-operation with foreign firms such as Siemens, Bombardier and Alstom.
The new service is expected to act as a catalyst in the development of central China that includes backward areas like Xianning by linking it to the highly developed Pearl River Delhi, which is an industrial hub in south China.
Sourse From: http://www.steelguru.com/news/index/2009/12/29/MTI2ODI1/China_launches_world_fastest_train_service.html
Monday, December 28, 2009
China launches world fastest train service
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