They boarded Germany’s fastest train expecting a calm, uneventful ride through the countryside. Just before reaching a small town, a single wheel fractured at 120 miles per hour—setting off a chain ...
France’s TGV network runs over LGV (lignes à grande vitesse) corridors, with the platform famously holding the steel-wheel world speed record at 574.8 km/h (357 mph) from the V150 campaign in 2007 (on ...
The new Amtrak Acela fleet will run at a top speed of 160 mph.SAUL LOEB / AFP Amtrak launched a new, faster line of Acela trains on August 28. The NextGen Acela trains can reach a top speed of 160 mph ...
PM IST Meanwhile, countries like Germany, Italy, France, Spain, China, and Japan continue to expand their advanced rail networks, with trains that regularly cross the 300 km/h mark Gazi Abbas Shahid ...
Amtrak announced a new, faster line of Acela trains that will begin service starting August 28. The NextGen Acela trains will reach a top speed of 160 mph, surpassing the current fleet by 10 mph. In ...