HS2 is set to cost more per kilometre than any other rail project in the world as total bill could surpass £100bn ...

Japan's Shinkansen bullet train was the first high-speed rail network in the world, debuting in 1964. Tokaido is the busiest line, running at 186 miles per hour and connecting Tokyo and Osaka in less ...

Japan’s Shinkansen is widely regarded as the gold standard of high-speed rail, but its success was decades in the making. We trace how postwar necessity, political will, and meticulous engineering ...

Sixty years ago, early in the morning of October 1, 1964, a sleek blue and white train slid effortlessly across the urban sprawl of Tokyo, its elevated tracks carrying it south toward the city of ...

Witness Japan’s Tokaido Shinkansen as it flies past Odawara Station at 177 MPH (285 km/h). This video captures the sheer ...

Stepping onto a Japanese bullet train feels like taking a trip into the future. The sleek, white cars with blue stripes down the side glide out of stations across the country every three minutes. The ...

High-speed railways combine both speed and efficiency. From the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan to the French TGV, high-speed trains have a history that spans several decades. The evolution of ...

Happy 60 th birthday to high-speed rail. It was on October 1 st in 1964 that the Shinkansen, Japan’s revolutionary super-fast train, made its debut. Known as the “bullet train” because of its ...

The new high-speed train Tohoku Shinkansen E5 series, Hayabusa, which will debut on March 5, reached 300 km/h in a Sendai-Shin Aomori test run with 140 reporters onboard last week. The test run ...