biscuitRAJA000 Posted April 21, 2015 Report Posted April 21, 2015 Central Japan Railway Co (JR Tokai) said that its new ultra-high speed magnetic levitation (maglev) train set a new world record speed of 603 kilometers per hour during a test run in Yamanashi Prefecture on Tuesday morning. Specially invited members of the public and press were able to watch the train as it briefly rocketed along the 42.8-kilometer test track. The train broke its own world record of 590 kilometers per hour, which it set last Thursday. The driverless maglev train utilizes a high-tech propulsion system called the “L-Zero” system that first brings the train to a speed of 160 km/hour. Upon reaching 160 km/hour, the train initiates the maglev system and slowly accelerates to 500 km/hour, JR Tokai said. The seven-car maglev train hovers 10 centimeters above the tracks and is propelled by electrically charged magnets. JR Tokai wants to have a train in service in 2027 plying the route between Tokyo and Nagoya, a distance of 286 kilometers, in 40 minutes—less than half the present journey time in the shinkansen bullet trains. JR Tokai said there will be four stations on the 286-kilometer route between Shinagawa and Nagoya. The Shinagawa and Nagoya stations will be about 40 meters underground. The first station after Shinagawa will be Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture (also underground). The next three stops will be above ground in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Iida, Nagano Prefecture and in Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture. By 2045 maglev trains are expected to link Tokyo and Osaka in just one hour and seven minutes, slashing the journey time in half. However, construction costs for the dedicated lines are astronomical—estimated at nearly 10 trillion yen just for the stretch to Nagoya, with more than 80% of the route expected to go through costly tunnels. Japan is looking to sell its shinkansen bullet and magnetic train systems overseas with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acting as traveling salesman in chief in his bid to revive the Japanese economy partly through infrastructure exports. He is due in the United States this weekend, where he will be touting the technology for a high speed rail link between New York and Washington.
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