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Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph)

posted by martyb on Thursday August 09 2018, @07:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the a-very-low-flying-aircraft dept.

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Xinhua reports:

China on Wednesday increased the maximum speed of bullet trains on the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway to 350 km per hour (kph), reducing the inter-city travel time by five minutes.

The route now runs a Fuxing (Rejuvenation), the newest bullet train model developed in China.

The increase will shorten travel time between Beijing South Railway Station and Tianjin Railway Station from 35 minutes to 30 minutes with no price difference in fares.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Friday August 10 2018, @12:36PM

    by VLM (445) on Friday August 10 2018, @12:36PM (#719886)

    operate completely robotic elevated light rail that comes every six minutes during rush hour

    Bet that wasn't cheap. Now imagine they built a high speed inter-city rail station there, and now they gotta scale that infrastructure up by 10x to handle the new traffic. Thats where the real money goes, you can build HSR pretty cheap when its mostly running thru cheap farm lands, but for people to use it to capacity now you have the "cheap" task of installing and then operating at a loss forever, subways and El-trains...

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