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Most of the Japanese Shinkansen trains travel at around 200mph. It's a brilliant network and a total pleasure to use, with only the French TGV coming close in terms of speed but not in frequency or timekeeping. I have no experience of the Chinese system but understand it's comparable but on a much more
massive scale.
The Japanese are innovators so will welcome the idea of an improvement to their already excellent trains. These trains are very long, so that improvement takes advantage of the continuous corridor that travels their entire length by equipping some Shinkansens with a running and hurdle track.
Travellers will therefore be able to spend at least some of their journeys running the length of the train as they negotiate the hurdles. This means that at certain times they will actually be travelling at a combined speed of 215mph.
Certificates and T shirts will show the slogan
"I ran from Tokyo to Kyoto at 215mph"
Swimming length train also under development.
https://en.m.wikipe...org/wiki/Shinkansen
[xenzag, Apr 24 2022]
Shinkansen Go!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm6TLNitR0M
[xenzag, Apr 25 2022]
Bullet train go!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oL-AOAOSTFw
[xenzag, Apr 25 2022]
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Running track on roof and hurdles on lineside gantries |
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+ I like this because I can stop and sit down if I get
tired of running. |
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Is it a continuous corridor though? Being a train, surely it's
still segmented into individual cars with open air pivot
points
between them right? |
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That's 1940s technology. All modern trains have |
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continuous, seamlessly connected airtight
carriages. [see details in |
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Can you point me to a specific section that says that? I did
search that article before I made that comment. It said
most of them have at least 16 cars approximately 82 feet
long in the spot I saw. |
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They're individually sealed airtight units, each car being
self propelled. That seems to be the opposite of what
you're describing. It's called an Electric Multiple Unit train. |
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Well I've travelled on it and the carriages are
continuous. |
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That's not my bone, btw. I'm neutral on this. Given that there
*are* curves which are being taken at high speed, I have
safety concerns here. |
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Hahahaha - "Over the Shinkansen's 50-plus-year
history, carrying over 10 billion passengers, there
has been not a single passenger fatality or injury
on board due to derailments or collisions." The
standards of engineering and safety in Japan are at
level you simply cannot imagine. My experience of
Japan is that everything works to total perfection.
It's integral to their ethos. Travelling on a JR bullet
train is probably being in one of the single safest
places on earth. |
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Well yes, but they don't currently encourage people to
sprint the length of the train whilst in transit lol |
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You've spotted what makes this a halfbaked idea. |
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