Top 10 Fastest ️‍Trains in the World | bullet train

Traveling in Europe by train is already faster than by plane right now, and Japan is testing a (Supreme) version of its popular bullet trains. Here are the world's fastest high-speed trains in commercial service, listed by speed.

1. Shanghai Maglev: 267 mph

Shanghai Maglev 267 mph

The Shanghai Maglev Train or Shanghai Transrapid is a magnetic levitation (maglev) train line that operates in Shanghai. It is the oldest commercial maglev still in operation, and the first high-speed commercial maglev with a cruising speed of 431 km / h (268 mph). It is also the fastest commercial electric train in the world.

The train line connects Shanghai Pudong International Airport and Longyang Bus Station (on the outskirts of central Pudong), where passengers can interchange with the Shanghai Metro to continue their journey to the city center. The line is not part of the Shanghai Metro network, which operates its own service to Pudong Airport from central Shanghai and Longyang bus station. It cost $ 39.759 million per kilometer to build. The line's balance of payments has been in huge deficit since it opened.

In its first years of operation, Shanghai Maglev Transportation Development Co. Ltd., the company that operates the line, suffered losses of over RMB 1 billion. Nonetheless, the line's lack of profitability stems from its construction to envision the future of China's rail infrastructure, such as converting its entire high-speed rail network to maglev, rather than a solution of the viable market to benefit travelers.

2. Fuxing Hao CR400AF/BF: 249 mph

Fuxing Hao CR400AF BF 249 mph

Fuxing is a series of high-speed and high-speed EMU trains operated by China Railway High-speed (CRH) and developed by CRRC, which owns independent intellectual property rights. Originally known as China Standardized EMU, project development started in 2012 and the design plan was completed in September 2014. The first EMU rolled off the production line on June 30, 2015. The series has received its current Fuxing designation in June 2017, with nicknames such as (Blue / Red Dolphin) (CR400AF) and (Golden Phoenix) (CR400BF) for some units. It is the world's fastest conventional high-speed train in regular service, with an operating speed of 350 km / h (220 mph) for the CR400AF and CR400BF models.

3. Shinkansen H5 and E5: 224 mph

Shinkansen H5 and E5 224 mph

The E5 series is a Japanese Shinkansen high-speed train built by Hitachi and Kawasaki Heavy Industries.

The E5 series has been operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) on Tohoku Shinkansen services since March 5, 2011, and on Hokkaido Shinkansen services since March 26, 2016. A total of 59 trainsets of 10 cars are on order, including three in service in time for the start of new Hayabusa services to Shin-Aomori in March 2011.

The H5 series, a cold-weather derivative of the E5 series, is operated by Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido); it has been in use on Tohoku and Hokkaido Shinkansen services since March 26, 2016. A total of four sets of 10 cars have been built by Hitachi and Kawasaki Heavy Industries at a cost of around 18 billion yen. The first two sets were delivered in October 2014.

4. The Italo and Frecciarossa: 220 mph

The Italo and Frecciarossa 220 mph

The high-speed train in Italy consists of two lines connecting most of the country's major cities. The first line connects Turin to Salerno via Milan, Bologna, Florence, Rome, and Naples, the second connects Turin to Venice via Milan, and is partly under construction. Trains run at a maximum speed of 300 km / h (190 mph).

Passenger service is provided by Trenitalia and, since April 2012, by NTV, the world's first private open-access high-speed train operator to compete with a state monopoly. 25 million passengers traveled on the network in 2011. In 2015, ridership increased to 55 million for Trenitalia and 9.1 million for NTV, for a total of 64 million passengers.

5. Renfe AVE: 217 mph

Renfe AVE 217 mph

Alta Velocidad Española (AVE) is a high-speed train service in Spain operated by Renfe, the Spanish national railway company, at speeds of up to 310 km / h (193 mph). In December 2021, the Spanish AVE system was the longest TGV network in Europe with 3,622 km (2,251 mi) and the second-longest in the world, after that of China.

AVE trains run on a network of high-speed rail tracks owned and operated by ADIF (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias), where other high-speed (Avant [es], Alvia, Avlo) and medium-speed (Altaria) services also work. The first line was opened in 1992, connecting the cities of Madrid, Cordoba, and Seville. Unlike the rest of the Iberian wide-gauge network, the AVE uses a standard gauge. This allows direct connections to outside Spain via the connection to the French network at the Perthus tunnel. AVE trains are operated by Renfe, but private companies may be able to operate trains in the future using other brands, in accordance with European Union law. Some TGV-derived trains ran on the wide-gauge network at slower speeds, but they were marked separately as Euromed until the new rolling stock was put into service for these services.

Alta Velocidad Española translates to (high-speed Spanish), but the initials are also a play on the word ave, which means (bird).

6. Haramain Western Railway: 217 mph

Haramain Western Railway 217 mph

The Haramain High-Speed ​​Railway (Haramain referring to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina), also known as the Western Railway or the Mecca-Medina High-Speed ​​Railway, is a line 453 kilometers (281 mi) long high-speed railway line into Saudi Arabia. It connects the Muslim holy cities of Medina and Mecca via the economic city of King Abdullah, using 449.2 kilometers (279.1 mi) of mainline and a 3.75 kilometer (2.33 mi) branch to King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA), in Jeddah. The line is designed for a top speed of 186 mph (299 km / h).

Construction of the project began in March 2009, was officially inaugurated on September 25, 2018, and opened to the public on October 11, 2018. The railway is expected to carry 60 million passengers per year, of which around 3-4 million are Hajj pilgrims. and Umrah. help relieve road congestion. It is not connected to the Mecca metro.

On March 31, 2021, the first trip to Medina was launched and operations between Mecca and Medina will resume after being postponed from March 20, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

7. Deutsche Bahn ICE: 205 mph

Deutsche Bahn ICE 205 mph

ICE 4 is a brand name for long-distance Intercity-Express high-speed trains purchased for Deutsche Bahn.

Supply began around 2008 for the replacement of the InterCity and EuroCity locomotive-hauled trains and was subsequently extended to include the replacement of the ICE 1 and ICE 2 high-speed trainsets. In 2011, Siemens Mobility won the contract for 130 seven-car intercity train replacements and 90 ten-car ICE train replacements, as well as other options - the contract for ten-car trainsets was amended in 2013 to extend the length of the train to twelve vehicles. The name ICx was used for trains during the early stages of procurement; at the end of 2015, the trains were renamed (ICE 4), when the first train was unveiled and received the class designation 412 by Deutsche Bahn.

Two pre-production train sets were made in 2016 and were used for testing later in the year before the main series was introduced in late 2017.

8. Korail KTX: 205 mph

Korail KTX: 205 mph

Le KTX-Sancheon (anciennement appelé KTX-II) est un train à grande vitesse sud-coréen construit par Hyundai Rotem dans la seconde moitié des années 2000 et exploité par Korail depuis mars 2009. Avec une vitesse de pointe de 305 km/h (190 mph), le KTX-Sancheon est le deuxième train à grande vitesse commercial exploité en Corée du Sud et le premier train à grande vitesse domestique conçu et développé en Corée du Sud.

9. Eurostar e320 and TGV: 200 mph

Eurostar e320 and TGV: 200 mph

TGV is France's high-speed intercity rail service, operated by SNCF. SNCF worked on a high-speed rail network from 1966 to 1974 and presented the project to President Georges Pompidou who approved it. Originally designed as turbotrains powered by gas turbines, the TGV prototypes evolved into electric trains with the oil crisis of 1973. In 1976, SNCF ordered 87 high-speed trains from Alstom. After the inaugural service between Paris and Lyon in 1981 on the LGV Sud-Est (LGV for High-Speed ​​Line), the network, centered on Paris, was extended to link the major cities of France (including Marseille, Lille, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Rennes, and Montpellier) and in neighboring countries on a combination of high-speed and conventional lines. The TGV network in France transports around 110 million passengers per year.

High-speed tracks, maintained by SNCF Réseau, are subject to strict regulations. Confronted with the fact that train drivers would not be able to see the signals along the track when the trains reached full speed, engineers developed the TVM cabin signaling technology, which will then be exported around the world. . It allows a train to carry out emergency braking to ask all the trains following it to reduce their speed in a few seconds; If a driver does not respond within 1.5 km (0.93 mi), the system overrides the commands and automatically reduces the train speed. The TVM safety mechanism allows TGVs using the same line to leave every three minutes.

A TGV test train set the world record for the fastest wheeled train, reaching 574.8 km / h (357.2 mph) on April 3, 2007. Conventional TGV services operate at up to 320 km / h (200 mph) on the LGV Est, LGV Rhin-Rhône and LGV Méditerranée. In 2007, the fastest regular rail journey in the world was an average start-to-stop speed of 279.4 km / h (173.6 mph) between Champagne-Ardenne station and Lorraine station on the LGV Est, exceeded up to the 2013 reported average of 283.7 km / h (176.3 mph) on the Shijiazhuang-Zhengzhou segment of China's Shijiazhuang-Wuhan high-speed railway.

The TGV was designed at the same time as other technology projects sponsored by the French government, including the Ariane 1 rocket and the Concorde supersonic airliner; these funding programs were known as national champion policies (literal translation: national champion). The commercial success of the first high-speed line has led to the rapid development of services to the south (LGV Rhône-Alpes, LGV Méditerranée, LGV Nîmes – Montpellier), west (LGV Atlantique, LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire, LGV Sud Europe Atlantic), to the north (LGV North, LGV Interconnection East) and to the east (LGV Rhin-Rhône, LGV Est). Neighboring countries Italy, Spain, and Germany have developed their own high-speed rail services.

The TGV system itself extends to neighboring countries, either directly (Italy, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany), or by networks derived from the TGV linking France to Switzerland (Lyria), to Belgium, to 'Germany and the Netherlands (Thalys), as well as to the United Kingdom (Eurostar). Several future lines are planned, including extensions in France and in neighboring countries. Cities like Tours and Le Mans are now part of a (TGV suburban belt) around Paris; the TGV also serves Charles de Gaulle and Lyon-Saint-Exupéry airports. A tourist attraction in itself, it stops at Disneyland Paris but also in tourist cities such as Avignon and Aix-en-Provence. Brest, Chambéry, Nice, Toulouse and Biarritz are accessible by TGV running on a mix of LGV and modernized lines. In 2007, SNCF generated profits of 1.1 billion euros (around 1.75 billion US dollars, 875 million pounds sterling) largely thanks to higher margins on the TGV network.

10. Thalys: 186 mph

Thalys: 186 mph

Thalys is a Franco-Belgian high-speed train operator originally built around the high-speed LGV Nord line between Paris and Brussels. This route is shared with Eurostar trains which go from Paris, Brussels, or Amsterdam to London via Lille and the Channel Tunnel and with French national TGV trains. Thalys also serves Amsterdam (via the LGV-Zuid) and the German cities of the Rhine-Ruhr, including Cologne, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen and Dortmund.

The service is managed by Thalys International, 70% owned by SNCF (Société nationale des Chemins de Fer de France) and 30% by the Société nationale des Chemins de Fer de Belgique (SNCB / SNCB) and operated by THI Factory which is 60% owned by SNCF and 40% owned by SNCB / SNCB.