Friday, October 16, 2009

World's Fastest Train



This is a high speed train built by the Alstom rail Group in France.Alstom They share manufacturing facilities with the GE Energy Products Europe (EPE) Gas Turbine group.The Train hits 574.8 Km/hr which is 357.2 MPH or Mach 0.482.Watch the train going under the bridge with people watching.

8 comments:

quilly said...

And why do we need a train that goes that fast?

Chubskulit Rose said...

Aww too bad, the vid wont play..

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JP said...

This is awesome...looking forward to travel in this train.

Phivos Nicolaides said...

Very interesting!

Voegtli said...

To answer to quilly's question: In Europe we are far advanced in train travel. Switzerland has a very highly efficient train network and system travelling at ease from one place to an other one. And thanks to highspeed trains like the TGV (also from the Alsthom group) I am travelling from my town on the shores of lake Geneva to the wonderful capital city of France, Paris, in 3 hours 20 minutes, from railway station to railway station in the centres of the cities. By airplane it would take ne 1 hour. From airport to airport. Going to airport, checking in, waiting, flying, getting down, going to town would take much more than 3 hours 20 minutes.

GMG said...

Hi Baron, here I am after another absence, much longer than I wished ;-(

Fast trains are the future!!

Blogtrotter is still travelling in Turkey and looking forward to seeing you there. Enjoy and have a great weekend!

Canajun said...

Awesome. Now if we could only get our act together on this side of the Atlantic....

Mr. Motorcycle said...

Um, WOW!