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Aussie Trains Can’t Get over 600km/H, but What about 100km/H?
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Aussie Trains Can’t Get over 600km/H, but What about 100km/H?
9 hours ago April 26, 2015 4:53PM
News.com.au
http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/aussie-trains-cant-get-
over-600kmh-but-what-about-100kmh/story-e6frflo9-1227321808520
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/pwxs7b7
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Japan boasts the fastest passenger
train in the world and its new Maglev
train managed to break its own speed
record this week. The hi-tech train,
which uses magnets to move while hovering
over the tracks, hopes to cover more than
400km in just one hour.
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In comparison, Australia’s own XPT service
barely exceeds 80km/h during its 11 hour
trip from Sydney to Melbourne, a journey
of about 900km.
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Gerard Drew, co-author of the report Zero
Carbon Australia High Speed Rail, said the
difference in speeds was “kind of embarrassing”,
and train travel in Australia felt “antiquated”.
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While the new Maglev train is not yet
operational in Japan, the country hopes
to have a link between Osaka and Tokyo up
and running by the late 2020s.
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Mr Drew said Japan’s current Shinkansen high
speed train system was already at capacity
and this was driving the development of the
new hi-tech rail line, which is expected to
cut a three-hour journey to one hour.
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Costing $76 billion, the 410km link is very
expensive and Mr Drew said it was unlikely
Australia would adopt the technology anytime
soon.
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But Mr Drew believes that high-speed rail
should play a part in Australia’s future,
especially now that the mining boom is
slowing down, which should also bring
construction costs down.
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