China Plans 1,000 KPH Super Train
Jason Mick (Blog) - August 5, 2010 1:19 PM




China is planning to build a 1,000 kph locomotive, which would nearly double the current record speed. (Source: China Daily)

The new train design revives a concept bandied about since the 1960s -- a vacuum tube train. To date the concept has never been commercially implemented. (Source: Capsule Pipelines)
Design would almost double today's record speed

We've discussed a couple of times the U.S.'s growing gap in high speed rail compared to China. As fossil fuels become more scarce, more expensive, and more dangerous from a political standpoint, mass transit solutions look increasingly appealing. High speed rail is particularly promising as it promises not only to reduce fossil fuel use, but also to get you to your destination faster.

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) reportedly are preparing a record-shattering 1,000 kilometer per hour train, according to the Beijing Times.

The new trains will make use of a vacuum tube to reduce friction losses. They will first build a prototype vacuum magnetic suspension train capable of traveling between 500 and 600 kph. That gives it a shot at breaking the record set by Japan's JR-Maglev train, which achieved a speed of 581 km/h (361 mph). The record for a traditional railed train was set by France's TGV at 574.8 km/h (357.18 mph).

After the prototype, the group plans to implement a smaller train capable of speeds of as much as 1,000 kph. Shen Zhiyun, a member of the research team, comments, "The speed can be reached by making vacuum pipelines for maglev trains to run through, with no air resistance."

Daryl Oster, who owns the U.S. patent on evacuated tube (vacuum) rail, now works at the CAE. Along with Zhiyun and another researcher, Zhang Yaoping, he is leading efforts to deploy the technology. The team hopes to begin laying ETT rail lines within the next ten years.

It would use less steel than current trains, but would be slightly more expensive. China is targeting a cost of 200 million yuan ($29.54M USD) per kilometer for its traditional rail. The Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) rail would cost approximately 210 to 220 million yuan ($31.0M USD to $32.49M USD) per kilometer.

Currently the planned trains travel at 350 kph. A cost increase of 5 to 10 percent seems a fair tradeoff to score nearly twice the speed. It's just one more example of how ambitious China is when it comes to high speed rail.

*ttp://www.dailytech.com/China+Plans+1000+KPH+Super+Train/article19268.htm


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oh no, how could you do that?

you know there are many nations don't even have average 100KM/H train service!

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"oh no, how could you do that?

you know there are many nations don't even have average 100KM/H train!"


BIG WRONG ... India has train with speed 5,000 km/h ... ask Aryanarya .. he would say plenty of them operational

or predictions?

The chinese are already rattling their cages before an Indian even posted here. Rattle on!

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Why put the emergency track and the main track both in operation, but one can be used as emergency track is the other is in trouble? I bet this could reduced the cost or increase the capacity a lot.

I can see this working in 10 to 20 years.

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Incredible how fast the chinese learned (some people will say copied) and further developed the german Maglev technology..

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It is this kind of thinking and investment that a nation needs to keep on the edge and take on the world. The USA used think and invest like this.

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I wonder how they feed oxygen to the passenger, given that the tunnel is vacuum to reduce air friction.

If this train ever break the air seal, then the passenger inside it will be in trouble.






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no problem, same speed as Boeing 747.

trains are on the land!