China's 'Rainhill Trials' and speed record

[John Ashworth]

29 November 2010

Reports from China indicate that their CRH-380AL has smashed the world
record speed for an unmodified train with a run at 455.5 km/h, beating
the last record of 416.6 km/h set by its shorter brother the CRH-380A
in September.

This is part of a competition taking place between several of their
designs evolved from imported models:

Unmodified sets:
CRH-2C (8 car Kawasaki derived)
CRH-380AL (16 car Kawasaki derived)
CRH-380BL (16 car Siemens Velaro derived)

Modified set:
Shortened CRH-380BL, 8M4T configuration

Development trains:
CIT-400A and CIT-400B

It will be interesting to see if they better this in the coming days.

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