Railway speed record

The world record for a conventional wheeled passenger train is held by a modified French TGV high-speed (with standard equipment) code named V150, set in 2007 when it reached 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph) on a 140 km (87 mi) section of track.^[1] Japan's experimental maglev train L0 Series achieved 603 km/h (375 mph) on a 42.8 km magnetic levitation track in 2015.^[2] Under commercial traffic and practical conditions where trains carry passengers across from one station to another, the world records for top operating speeds of maglev and single phase trains are held respectively by China's Shanghai Maglev Train that has a top speed of 431 km/h (268 mph) and CR400 Fuxing Hao with 350 km/h (217 mph), which also hails from China. They are followed by France's TGV Duplex and Japan's E5 series shinkansen which both have maximum operating speeds of 320 km/h (199 mph) for commercial services.^[3]

^ "French train breaks speed record". CBC News. 3 April 2007. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
^ "Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record with 600km/h test run". The Guardian. United Kingdom: Guardian News and Media Limited. 21 April 2015. Archived from the original on 6 December 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
^ Jones, Ben (2021-12-10). "Flying without wings: The world's fastest trains". CNN. Retrieved 2023-09-12.

[1] "French train breaks speed record". CBC News. 3 April 2007. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013.

[guardian20150421-2] "Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record with 600km/h test run". The Guardian. United Kingdom: Guardian News and Media Limited. 21 April 2015. Archived from the original on 6 December 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2015.

[3] Jones, Ben (2021-12-10). "Flying without wings: The world's fastest trains". CNN. Retrieved 2023-09-12.

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