How Japan’s Shinkansen bullet trains changed the world of rail travel forever
Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a ...
60 years of Japan’s bullet train: How Shinkansen changed country, transformed world travel
Shinkansen, which means ’new trunk line’, has become the symbol of post-World War II Japan and a shining example of speed and ...
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France: Proxima Orders 12 Avelia Horizon High-Speed Trains from Alstom
Independent high-speed rail operator, Proxima has ordered 12 Avelia Horizon very high-speed trains from Alstom for operations ...
Why aren't night trains more popular in Europe?
Hopes were high as the Nightjet train took its inaugural journey from Berlin to Paris last December-- the first to connect ...
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High-speed rail turns 60
France quickly followed with its TGV, la Train a Grande Vitesse (high-speed train) introducing its first service in 1981 running between Paris and Lyon. Today there are over 1700 miles of TGV ...
Deutsche Bahn: New train to link Berlin and Paris in 8 hours
A new high-speed train, operated by German rail operator Deutsche Bahn and France's SNCF, will allow passengers to travel ...
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How Japan’s Shinkansen bullet trains changed the world of rail travel forever
France’s TGV network has been phenomenally ... For the moment, the closest equivalent to the bullet train for British passengers are new Hitachi-built “Intercity Express Trains” using ...