Japanese maglev is the fastest train in the world traveling at 603 Km per hour

Japan has to its credit of creating the Shinkansen high-speed rail line which opened in 1964. It was a perfect timing because it was in that year that Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics, and Japan took the opportunity to come to the limelight and debut the world's first commercial bullet train.
History would be repeated because in 2020, the Japanese capital will host the Summer Olympics, and the country will once again shatter rail records by launching the new Japanese maglev. It will be the fastest train in the world after traveling at 603 kilometers per hour on a test run near Mount Fuji last year. It has broken its own world record of 590 km per hour that had been set the previous week.
This has been reported in edition.cnn.com dated 4 November 2016.

Maglev trains are already operating at slower speeds in Shanghai and Changsha, in China, and Incheon, in South Korea. They make use of magnetic repulsion both to lift the train up from the ground (this reduces friction), and to propel it forward. Maglev is Japan's boldest rail innovation yet. As per plans, the Chuo Shinkansen maglev line will link Tokyo to the southern city of Nagoya in 40 minutes. This will be faster than flying, given the time it takes to get through an airport. The line would, later, be extended to Osaka. Incidentally, the 16-carriage train can shuttle 1,000 passengers along the 177 mile (286 km) track. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is a big fan of this project and he is proposing a route from Washington to New York - it will be at a speed that would be equivalent to that between Tokyo and Nagoya.


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