China's 'Rainhill Trials' and speed record
Posted: 30 Nov 2010, 09:34
https://groups.google.com/group/uk.rail ... e01e?hl=en#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.