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What is the fastest speed a train has ever travelled at anywhere in the world?

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357.2 miles per hour
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574.8km/h ( 357.16 mph)...... achieved in France today

makes the british trains look rather sick at their top speed of 201.17km/h (125 mph)

see privatisation works.....
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Here are some interesting train facts:-

Fastest conventional train

553 km/h (344 mph) France, TGV-POS set 4403, 13 February 2007.

Fastest gas turbine-powered train

318 km/h (199 mph) France, TGV001, 8 December 1972.

Fastest diesel-powered train

238 km/h (149 mph) UK, HST, 1 November 1987.

Fastest steam locomotive

202 km/h (126 mph) UK, A4 class Gresley pacific No. 4468 "Mallard", 3 July 1938.

Fastest narrow gauge (1,067 mm) train

245 km/h (152 mph) South Africa, class 6E electric locomotive, December 1978.

Fastest third-rail electric train

174 km/h (109 mph) UK, class 442 (Wessex Electric) emu, 11 April 1988.

Fastest maglev train

581 km/h (363 mph) Japan, MLX01 maglev train (manned), 2 December 2003.

Fastest rail vehicle

10,300 km/h (Mach 8.6) USA, Holloman Air Force Base High Speed Test Track, unmanned rocket sled, 30 April 2003.

Fastest scheduled average speed between two station stops

263.3 km/h (165 mph) France, TGV between Lyon-St ExupÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â©ry and Aix-en-Provence, from 2005.

Fastest scheduled average speed between starting and terminating stations

242.5 km/h (152 mph) Japan, 500 series "Nozomi" between Shin-Osaka and Hakata, from March 1997.

Fastest closing speed between two trains (maglev)

1,026 km/h (641 mph) Japan, MLX01 3-car sets, 16 November 2004.

Fastest non-stop run over 1,000 km

3 hrs 9 mins (average speed 317.5 km/h) France, TGV-Reseau set 531 between Calais and Marseilles, 26 May 2001.
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ON BOARD TRAIN V150, France (Reuters) - A French TGV train broke a world speed record on Tuesday as it hurtled down a newly built track at 574.8 kilometres per hour (357 mph) in the country's Champagne region.

The special train called V150, an enhanced version of trains that will run on the Paris-Strasbourg line from June, has been preparing for the record run for weeks and it carried journalists and other guests for the official attempt.

Engineer Alstom, state railways group SNCF and track operator RFF had teamed up to show off French engineering excellence and boost export prospects for French trains.

The absolute speed record for trains was set by a 'maglev' train in Japan, at 581 kilometres per hour in 2003. However, those trains do not run on rails but glide on a magnetic field.

The previous speed record for a train running on rails was 515.3 kph, set in France in 1990.

Apart from France's Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) and Japan's Shinkansen, high-speed trains are also made by Germany's Siemens and Canada's Bombardier.

The V150 was made up of two normal cars that will run on the eastern TGV track, three double-decker carriages and three sets of motorised wheels. The train can develop over 25,000 horsepower, twice that of a conventional TGV.

The record was set between Preny, near Metz in the east of France, and Bezannes near Reims. The event run was broadcast live on television in France and neighbouring Germany.

High-speed trains in France as well as rail links to London, Brussels, Cologne and Amsterdam are competing with plane travel and several French regional airlines have disappeared since the TGV started in 1981.
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The World Record for the fastest train is held by the Japanese Maglev,

It's top speed was 360.2mph!
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A TRAIN IN FRANCE IS A HEADLINE, TOPS 341 MPH,
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yeah it was this midday in France it was in direct on T.V !!! it AWESOME 574,7 KM !!! I don't know the number in miles for you sorry !!!
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357mph in france today
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The fastest was a TGV which set the record at 581kph (360.8 mph) that was in 2003 by a Japanese magnetic levitation, or Maglev, train.
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It just happened today - 356mph (574.8km/h) TGV (Train    Grande Vitesse) train in France, running between Paris & Strasbourg.

This is a record for a train travelling on conventional track.  However, the fastest ever train was a Japanese magnetic levitation train - MAGLEV - which reached 361mph (581km/h) in 2003.
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well today  in France they made a train and they tried it out and it went  574.7  km/h

that is the fastest train in the world

357.103  m/h

it went really fast
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