China plans world's fastest train service

[Doctor Cynic]

Source: UPI

BEIJING, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- China has started selling tickets for what it says will be the world's fastest train, running an average speed of 217 mph.

The Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed railway, which begins service Dec. 26, will travel the route's 664 miles in three hours, compared with more than 10 hours previous trains took, the news agency Xinhua reported Friday.

Tickets for the journey range from about $72 to $114, close to the price of airline tickets, Xinhua said.

"The price for the Wuhan-Guangzhou line is reasonable, although it is a little bit higher than discounted flight price," said a businessman who traveled between the cities frequently. "The time of the rail journey is even shorter than by air, because I can avoid security checks as well as long trips between the airports and city centers."

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2009/12/19/China-plans-worlds-fastest-train-service/UPI-60371261272238/

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Wuhan to Changsha to Guangzhou is 968 km. Express trains can complete the run in 2 hours and 57 minutes. A similar distance would be Baltimore to Atlanta, or Boston to Virginia Beach.

Betcha can't travel between those places at any speed near that...

[Ken Burch]

1. Bad place to get tied to the tracks by Snidely Whiplash!

[Kolesar]

2. I wonder how many farmers will lose their land when they clear the right of way

(and get no compensation). This sounds like another expression of the country's collective ego.

[jman0]

3. farmers loosing land?

Oh boo hoo. Firstly there are not that many private farms in China.
Secondly, you are talking out of your arse as you have no idea where the line is, and if it's a matter of upgrading an existing line or a new one.
Probably just jealous of the fact that CHINA is now providing the fastest high speed rail in the world.
Particuarly when you look at usa:

High-speed rail in the United States currently consists of one rail line described by the US Department of Transportation as a high-speed line:<1> Amtrak's Acela Express service, which runs the Northeast Corridor—from Boston via New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, to Washington, D.C.—at speeds averaging 68 mph (109 km/h) for the entire distance but briefly reaching 150 mph (240 km/h) at times.

[Suji to Seoul]

5. I love the bullet train here. First class is 103 Kuai from Shijiazhuang to Beijing

2.5 hours. No stops!

[Kolesar]

9. Probably just jealous

You're an idiot

[girl gone mad]

11. Why should anyone be jealous?

It will likely be another line that few citizens can afford to ride.

I don't think anyone is jealous of the gigantic empty mall or the empty cities, either.

"If you build it, they will come" is not a viable long-term economic plan.

[Jkid]

12. Wut?

high-speed line

averaging 68 mph

Pathetic.

[Suji to Seoul]

4. Oh, come on. . .I live in &#30707;&#23478;&#24196; and am moving to &#26118;&#26126; soon

Make a 快速列车 arrive in the city I'm moving to in August.

At least I have a 快速列车 from 石家庄to 背景 and a 24 hour 快速列车 from 背景to 红空.

Why 武汉？ There isn't much in 湖北 province outside of 武汉。

云南 province could use a bullet to 广州 and 深圳.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. I don't know how to input Chinese, but I can read your post!

except that you have the wrong characters for "Beijing" and "Hong Kong." :-) I'll input the correct ones in Japanese: 北京 and 香港.

Anyway, "At least I have an express train from Shijiazhuang to Beijing and a 24-hour express train from Beijing to Hong Kong.

Why Wuhan? There isn't much in Hubei province outside of Wuhan.

Yunnan province could use a bullet to Guangzhou and Shenzhen."

Cool. So are you teaching English in China, and have you taught in Korea?

[2bornot2b]

6. The title of the post is wrong

China is not "planning" such a train. They have already built it. It will start running in 6 days.

[dipsydoodle]

7. tgv speed record at 574.8kmh - 357.16mph

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8skXT5NQzCg I appreciate that wasn't average speed.

[pattmarty]

8. And what are we doing in the greatest country on earth? We are............

..............arguing about instituting a medieval, obsolete, fascist (corporate friendly) healthcare system that the rest of the industrialized world did 50 or 60 yrs ago. You are witnessing the fall of America.