TRAVELING AT OVER 430 KILOMETERS PER HOUR!

in #travel • 7 years ago (edited)

Yikes - Talk about a fast ride!!! ➲ ➲ ➲

It is the fastest commercial high-speed electric train in the world!

The Shanghai Maglev Train that goes from the Pudong Airport to Shanghai is a magnetic levitation train.

This train cost $1.2 billion to build, but it can travel at over 430 kph (267 mph).

Traveling at this speed, the journey takes only 7 minutes and 20 seconds to complete a distance of 30 km (18.6 mi). This same trip took 1.5 hours in rush hour traffic on the bus.

Take a peek at what this ride looks and feels like in the video link below ...

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     7 years ago 

    Wow nice! I took a train from Beijing to Shanghai and it was about 330km/h. Yours is so much faster. Thanks for sharing. Have followed and upvoted you. Hope you can do the same!

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       7 years ago 

      Thanks for the upvote and follow cleo88.
      330km/h is not too shabby - I have been told that there are some faster non-commercial test trains, but I believe the list of fastest commercial trains is as follows ...

      Shanghai Maglev: 267 mph.
      Harmony CRH380A: 236 mph.
      Trenitalia Frecciarossa 1000: 220 mph.
      Renfe AVE: 217 mph.
      DeutscheBahn ICE: 205 mph.
      Eurostar e320 and TGV: 200 mph.
      Hayabusa Shinkansen E5: 200 mph.
      Thalys: 186 mph.

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         7 years ago 

        Thanks for the information! But I was impressed with the train service and speed of the trains in China. Really world class standards.....I hope to go to China again soon. I will try your recommendations. Thanks for sharing!

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