The ICE (InterCity Express) is a high-speed train that connects all major cities in Germany. With speeds up to 300km/h, this is one of the fastest ways to travel between cities such as Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne.
Under commercial traffic and practical conditions where trains carry passengers across from one station to another, the world records for top operating speeds of maglev and single-phase trains are held respectively by China's Shanghai Maglev Train with a top speed of 431 km/h (268 mph) and CR400 Fuxing Hao at 350 km/h ...
The ICE3 impresses with peak values of 368 km/h. In everyday life, however, it usually travels at 250 km/h and a maximum of 300 km/h, because a higher speed is not permitted in Germany. The TGV, on the other hand, has a conventional speed of 320 km/h and thus wins in practice.
From there, the ICE heads towards Munich via Mannheim and Stuttgart. With a route length of 1,289 kilometres, the journey from Offenburg to Greifswald on the Baltic Sea is the longest IC connection and therefore only slightly shorter. The IC 2216 first heads towards Stuttgart with a stopover in Karlsruhe.
German company Max Bögl has developed a new maglev train, Transport System Bögl (TSB), that aims to revolutionize mass transit. The TSB is a fully integrated package that includes planning, vehicle manufacture, on-site assembly, and system operation.
The maximum speed currently possible in the UK is 186mph, achieved by Eurostar trains on the HS1 line between London and the Channel Tunnel. The HS1 line is used by Eurostar services and "Javelin" commuter services from Kent, although the latter have a max speed of 140mph.
The Eurostar travels through the Channel Tunnel at a speed of 100 miles per hour (160kph) although when the train is outside the tunnel it reaches speed of 186 miles per hour (300 kph).
Over the past half century, the made-in-Japan technology behind these sleek trains has continued to evolve. Top speed has risen from 210 km/h (130 mph) to 320 km/h (200 mph), and ridership is now 1 million passengers per day.
Is China building a train that's faster than a plane?
China has successfully tested a magnetic levitation (Maglev) technology which could see trains travel faster than most planes. The most recent test, demonstrated at Donghu Laboratory in Hubei Province, saw a 1.1-ton Maglev train accelerating to 404 mph in just under 7 seconds over 1,968 feet.
Solution : To find the average speed of the train in miles per hour, we need to divide the total distance traveled by the time taken to travel that distance. So, the average speed of the train was 60 miles per hour.
It is a maglev (magnetic levitation) line using partly evacuated tubes or tunnels. Reduced air resistance could permit vactrains to travel at very high (hypersonic) speeds with relatively little power—up to 6,400–8,000 km/h (4,000–5,000 mph). This is 5–6 times the speed of sound in Earth's atmosphere at sea level.
Most ICE trains offer breakfast/lunch or dinner menus with many German specialties as well as snacks and a wide selection of beverages. In 1st class staff will serve food/drink to your seat.
Germany like some other European countries simply named their IC class trains intercity. Intercity-Express was introduced as the name for the passenger trains faster than the normal intercity class trains. Express is just a normal German word.
FS' Frecciarossa 1000 high speed train at Milano Centrale railway station, with a maximum speed of 400 km/h (249 mph), is one of the fastest trains in Europe. FS' ETR 600 high speed train at Venezia Santa Lucia railway station. Its design comes from Giorgetto Giugiaro.
Our fleet of British built bullet trains will travel at a top speed of 225 mph along 140 miles of high-speed track between London and Birmingham. 280 miles Our track systems supplier will design and then install more than 280 miles (450km) of track.
China has the world's only commercial maglev high-speed train line in operation. The Shanghai Maglev Train, a turnkey Transrapid maglev demonstration line 30.5 km (19.0 mi) long. The trains have a top operational speed of 430 km/h (267 mph) and can reach a top non-commercial speed of 501 km/h (311 mph).
It is the third-longest railway tunnel in the world. Although the tunnel was designed for speeds up to 200 km/h (120 mph), trains are limited to a maximum speed of 160 km/h (99 mph) for safety reasons. It connects to high-speed railway lines on either end: the LGV Nord in France and High Speed 1 in England.
Do you know what the UK's longest direct train journey is? An obvious guess might be London to Edinburgh, or maybe even Plymouth to Glasgow. Both of those are good tries, but they are wrong. The longest train route in Britain is actually the 14-hour cross-national epic that is Aberdeen to Penzance.
It was rejected in 2007 by the UK government, in favour of conventional high-speed rail. The company behind the proposal ceased efforts to promote it in early 2013.
High-speed rail infrastructure is expensive, and is becoming more so: on average, the lines we audited cost 25 million euro per km (not taking into account the more expensive tunnelling projects). The costs involved could in fact have been far lower, with little or no impact on operations.
As for the fastest speeds ever reached by a train, the honour of fastest train in the world goes to the L0 Series SCMaglev in Japan. On its test track this Japanese maglev train reached a top speed of 603 km/h or 375 mph. That incredible achievement means it can travel at almost double regular shinkansen speeds.
