Saturday, December 17, 2011

High Speed Rail:

High speed rails, also known by the acronym, HSR, is purely a passenger rail transport which operates much faster than a normal rail. The International Union of Railways (UIC) says the high speed rail is “systems of rolling stock and infrastructure which normally operates of speeds above 155 mph on new tracks, and 124 mph on the existing tracks.” The maximum speed for countries such as: China, Japan, Spain, Italy, France, and the UK is 300 km/h which translates to 186 mph.

The high speed rail era started on the 6th October, 1903. In 1945, an inventor known as Alejandoro Goicechen, with a Spanish background, invented a streamline diesel powered high speed train which is slightly slower than the previous high speed trains. But this is where the lift off of high speed rails began.

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