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The Class 395 can operate at a maximum speed of 140 mph (225 km/h) under 25 kV AC overhead electrification on High Speed 1, and 100 mph (160 km/h) on 750 V DC third-rail supply on conventional lines. It is typically formed as a six-car train, although they can be rapidly coupled to one another to form a 12-car train as required.
An 18 km (11 mi) long test track outside of Chevilly was built to test it, where it arrived on 10 September 1969. Two days later it reached 200 km/h (120 mph), and the day after that 250 km/h (160 mph), its design speed.
The InterCity 225 was designed to achieve a peak service speed of 140 mph (225 km/h); during a test run in 1989 on Stoke Bank between Peterborough and Grantham, an InterCity 225 was recorded at a speed of 162 mph (260.7 km/h). [9]
Locomotive 91012 (now 91112) holds the separate record for the fastest non-stop journey between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley; 3 hours 29 minutes on 26 September 1991, [9] [22] running within the 140 mph (230 km/h) speed limit but hauling a shortened set of only five coaches plus DVT. The time converts to an average speed of 112.5 ...
The time it takes a vehicle to accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour (97 km/h or 27 m/s), often said as just "zero to sixty" or "nought to sixty", is a commonly used performance measure for automotive acceleration in the United States and the United Kingdom. In the rest of the world, 0 to 100 km/h (0 to 62.1 mph) is used.
An Illinois man was arrested after a high-speed car chase in central Iowa that reached speeds up to 140 mph. Central Iowa car chase, with speeds up to 140 mph, ends in crash, arrest Skip to main ...
The driver can again try to increase start speed by 20 mph on the second turn, but a car that stalls two turns in a row is out of the race. The car in the lead moves first, moving 1 square ahead for every 20 mph of speed. The second car then moves, and so on. [3]
City officials roundly praised the speed with which the Police and Fire Rescue departments responded to 911 calls. One woman even went into labor at the time of the tornado and crews delivered a ...