13 Fastest Bullet Trains in the World

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High speed bullet trains have started popping up in the later 20th Century, promising speeds of 200 km/hr and greater.  Here’s footage of the world’s fastest train as of 2013:

 

 

 

 

Thanks to todotrenes ESPAÑA for uploading the video!

 

 

Can you guess the top speed achieved by some of the fastest trains below (as of 2016)?

 

 

 

 

? By Minseong Kim - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37324587Question #1: The HEMU-430X was built in 2011 and will enter service in South Korea as the KTX-III.

? By N509FZ - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46378989Question #2: The CRH380A is one of China’s first high speed locomotives with a design not officially based on any foreign designs like, say, the TGV.

? By N509FZ - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48867260Question #3: CRH380CL: It’s basically the CRH380B with a redesigned nose which was released in the early 2010s and entered service in 2013.

? By Spendeau - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36680576Question #4: Eurostar e320: AKA British Rail Class 374. Serving the Chunnel since 2015 to connect major cities like Paris, Brussels, and London.

? By Rondador - Own work, GFDL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3389843Question #5: AVE Class 102: It’s often nicknamed “Pato” which means “Duck” in Spanish. I mean, just look at its nose!

? By Peter elektro - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27524156Question #6: AVE Class 103: This train is named very similarly as the previous train but don’t let that deceive you! Instead of a duck shaped head, it’s based off of the German ICE 3 design!

? By julienghien1 from Enghien, Belgique - AnsaldoBreda ETR 1000, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37980172Question #7: ETR 1000: One of the newer models of bullet trains currently operating in Italy.

? By Flodur44 - own archive - eigenes Archiv, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5310286Question #8: ICE 3: The 3rd Generation of Germany’s Intercity-Express family of high speed trains.

? By Sukhoi37 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20316423Question #9: E6 Series Shinkansen: One of the latest trains in Japan’s legendary Shinkansen family, these have been in operation since 2013.

? By LHOON from Mechelen, Belgium - ETR500 at Milano C, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38903856Question #10: ETR 500: One of Italy’s most ground-breaking bullet trains from the 1990s.

? By denisparis - http://flickr.com/photos/denislander/975900097/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3568234Question #11: TGV POS: One of the fastest trains to hit France’s TGV network since the 1980s.

? By Brücke-Osteuropa - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9772475Question #12: CRH3C: One of China’s fastest bullet trains in the late 2000s.

? By Minseong Kim - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37163081Question #13: KTX-I: South Korea’s high speed trains from the early 2000s based off of the French TGV (these are AKA TGV-K.)

 

 

 

 

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