like a specially modified French TGV train that reached 357.2 mph (574.8 kph) during a 2007 test, or a Japanese magnetically levitated train that sped to 361 mph (581 kph) in 2003, but this Chinese train called the CRH380A, is a normal run of the mill passenger train,
the speed record was set during a test run of the yet-to-be opened link between Beijing and Shanghai according to the Xinhua News Agency, reaching 302 miles an hour (486 kilometers per hour) the train clocked up the fastest recorded speed by an unmodified conventional commercial train, it reached the top speed on a segment of the 824-mile (1,318-kilometer) -long line between Zaozhuang city in Shandong province and Bengbu city in Anhui province, Xinhua said,
China already has the world's longest high-speed rail network, and it plans to cover 8,125 miles (13,000 kilometers) by 2012 and 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) by 2020, now I wonder if it could link up to Eurostar? say at Frankfurt and continue through to London, then at the Asian end a small spur off to say Bangkok and Singapore, no more pollution from aircraft, just a tad longer in travel times, I wonder.
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