Which is the quickest train in the world?

Question

Which is the quickest train in the world?

Answer 1

I think that France have the quickest train with speed 481kmph

Answer 2

Use Google!

Answer 3

The French have one that does 300mph but the Japanese did 360mph 4 years ago but am not sure if that's in service now.

The most stupid must be an Indian train, because they have metal bars at the windows so if the train crashes people just burn alive.

Hopefully after reading this post of mine they'll take the bars off, unless that's a overpopulation control plot of theirs.

Answer 4

The Japanese mag-lev is the fastest train of any type, setting the record at 581 km/h in 2003.

The French TGV has long been the fastest "conventional" train in the world.  It first set the record at 380 km/h in 1981, then 482.4 km/h in 1989, 515.3 km/h in 1990 and 574.8 km/h in April 2007.  Each of these times it broke its own record, with the exception of the 1989 run, where the previous record was the German ICE set in 1988 at 406.9 km/h.

The TGV was also listed in 2005 as the fastest scheduled train service in the world, with an average speed of 263.3 km/h and a top speed of 320 km/h over a distance of 289.6 km.

Answer 5

As of lately, the TGV in France set a land speed record of 300 plus miles per hour. This is a "conventional" train in that it sits on rails and steel wheels.

There is a train in Japan or China that rides or floats on an electromagnetic field and can exceed 300 MPH.

You eventually get to a point where wind or air resistance will cap the speeds. I suppose they could slap a couple of jet engines on one or both of these trains and try to break the sound barrier. This would be an interesting feat. Might lay some rail on the salt flats in the US south-west where they have set all the other land speed records with all kinds of various powered vehicles.

Answer 6

Japan still has the fastest train in the world, but it is a "Maglev", not your conventional "steel wheels on steel" rails type train.  It is magnetically levitated and skims over a guideway on powerful magnetic fields without ever touching the track.  The Maglev set a record of 581 kph (361 mph) in 2003.

The French TGV holds the world's record for the fastest conventional train, recently breaking its own record with a speed of 515.3 kph (320.2 mph).

These speed records are set using the best track available, as, it is the track condition that limits how fast you can safely travel.  They also increased the overhead line voltage from 25KV to 31KV, and the locomotive that was used had larger wheels in circumference so with each revolution the wheel went farther.  There were many other modifications and fine tuning that was done that permitted the higher speeds.