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Shinkansen 700T train on a test run on the Taiwan High Speed Rail in September 2013 China Railways CRH2 based on the E2 Series Shinkansen, September 2018 British Rail Class 395 in the United Kingdom, September 2009. Railways using Shinkansen technology are not limited to those in Japan.
The name is a portmanteau of Fast, Technology, and 360 km/h (360 km/h or 225 mph), the target operational speed for production trains based on the new technologies. Speeds of up to 405 km/h (250 mph) were targeted during performance testing. [ 1 ]
The predecessor for the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines was originally conceived at the end of the 1930s as a 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge dangan ressha (bullet train) between Tokyo and Shimonoseki, which would have taken nine hours to cover the nearly 1,000-kilometer (620 mi) distance between the two cities.
The private company operates the line fully, and the system is based primarily on Japan's Shinkansen technology. [ 172 ] Eight initial stations were built during the construction of the high-speed rail system: Taipei, Banqiao, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan, and Zuoying (Kaohsiung). [ 173 ]
Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a global revolution in high-speed rail travel that continues to this day.
Following an offer from the Japanese government to provide cheap loans to THSRC if it switches to Shinkansen technology, [11] in spite of an earlier agreement with Eurotrain, THSRC decided to re-tender the core systems technology contract June 1999. [12] THSRC announced on December 28, 1999, that it would negotiate a final contract with TSC. [13]
It retains the flush plug doors for the passenger doors immediately behind the driving cabs, whereas the full-production sets have recessed sliding doors. [ 34 ] From the start of the revised timetable on 16 March 2013, the maximum speed in service was raised from 300 km/h (186 mph) to 320 km/h (199 mph) between Utsunomiya and Morioka.
W7 series set W3 in August 2020. The E7 series (E7系, E-nana-kei) and W7 series (W7系, Daburu-nana-kei) Shinkansen are Japanese high-speed electric multiple unit train types operated on the Hokuriku and Jōetsu Shinkansen lines, and jointly developed by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and West Japan Railway Company (JR West) respectively.