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Chūō Shinkansen
- maxcan 5y agoELI5: will they have to keep the entire 380km or so of track cooled to 4.15k continuously? This feels like a shockingly difficult engineering problem.
- mrlonglong 5y agoFrom what I read I don't think they're using superconducting technology.
- mrlonglong 5y agoHere in the UK we've only just started building the HS2 railway fon London up to Birmingham, bifurcating into two lines beyond towards Manchester and Leeds by the 2030s. These trains will run at 250mph. A far cry from the trains I used to take on the intercity routes years ago that only maxed out at 125mph or 140mph.