Railway Budget 2014 - Snippets (3)

World’s fastest train:-

Country	Speed (kmph)	Distance (km)
France	320	731	TGV (Train a Grande Vitesse meaning high speed train) operates the LGV Mediterranee, LGV Est and LGV Dijon-Mulhouse: the fastest high speed lines. First proposed in the 1960s, they’re inspired by the Shinkansen
China	300	3426	China currently has the world’s largest high-speed rail network. 7 lines support 300 kmph speed and stretch over a whooping 3000 km. One of these is the superfast one between Beijing and Shanghai
Germany	300	273	The trains running on Koln-Frankfurt and Nurenberg-Ingolstadt line run at 300 kmph. Germany experienced a rare fatal accident on high-speed rail networks. 101 people died in the 1998 Eschede train disaster
Japan	300	858	Shinkansen-the bullet train is easily the world’s most famous high-speed train system. The two 300 kmph trains were started in 1975 and 1982.
India: From Mumbai – Ahmedabad; expected to run a length of 534 km at a speed of 320 kmph